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CVE-2017-16025

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16025 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in hapijs nes versions 6.4.0 and below, occurring when websocket authentication is configured to use cookies. An attacker can trigger a node process error by submitting an invalid Cookie header during the websocket upgrade request. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) has a low attack complexity and high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hapijs:nes:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0190 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: nesFixed in: 6.4.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrxhigh

Denial of Service in nes

Jul 24, 2018

References

github.com / hapijs/nes/commit/249ba1755ed6977fbc208463c87364bf884ad655
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / hapijs/nes/issues/171
Third Party Advisory
nodesecurity.io / advisories/331
Third Party Advisory