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CVE-2017-16025

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

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.

Affected products

• HackerOne nes node module: through 6.4.0

References

• https://github.com/hapijs/nes/commit/249ba1755ed6977fbc208463c87364bf884ad655
• https://github.com/hapijs/nes/issues/171
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/331
• https://github.com/hapijs/nes/commit/249ba1755ed6977fbc208463c87364bf884ad655
• https://github.com/hapijs/nes/issues/171
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/331

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