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medium 5.9

CVE-2017-16025 json

Denial of Service in nes

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrx , EUVD-2018-0216

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Nes is a websocket extension library for hapi. Hapi is a webserver framework. Versions below and including 6.4.0 have a denial of service vulnerability via an invalid Cookie header. This is only present when websocket authentication is set to `cookie`. Submitting an invalid cookie on the websocket upgrade request will cause the node process to error out.

Patch / fix

  • npm nes 6.4.1

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Exploit prediction

1.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm nes
<6.4.1
6.4.1

Affected products

  • HackerOne nes node module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

Sources

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