What is CVE-2017-16025?

CVE-2017-16025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hackerone Nes Node Module, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-06-04.

How severe is CVE-2017-16025?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-16025 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Hackerone Nes Node Module

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.019 (77.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Hackerone Nes Node Module — versions <=6.4.0
Hapijs Nes

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
support@hackerone.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16025?: CVE-2017-16025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hackerone Nes Node Module, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-06-04.
How severe is CVE-2017-16025?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-16025 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.