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CVE-2016-10525

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

When attempting to allow authentication mode `try` in hapi, hapi-auth-jwt2 version 5.1.1 introduced an issue whereby people could bypass authentication.

Affected products

• HackerOne hapi-auth-jwt2 node module: through 5.1.1

References

• https://github.com/dwyl/hapi-auth-jwt2/issues/111
• https://github.com/dwyl/hapi-auth-jwt2/pull/112
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/81
• https://github.com/dwyl/hapi-auth-jwt2/issues/111
• https://github.com/dwyl/hapi-auth-jwt2/pull/112
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/81

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