CVE-2017-16025

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - support@hackerone.com

Published

2018-06-04

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-287, CWE-400

Affected products

• Nes Node Module (Hackerone)
• Nes (Hapijs)

References

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