Vulnerability CVE-2017-16025


Published: 2018-06-04

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.

Type:

CWE-287

(Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Hapijs -> NES 

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

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