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CVE-2016-1000232

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1000232 describes a Regular Expression Parsing vulnerability in NodeJS Tough-Cookie version 2.2.2, affecting products like IBM API Connect and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) allows for a Denial of Service attack via specially crafted HTTP cookie headers, requiring no user interaction or privileges. While the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage. A fix was released in Tough-Cookie version 2.3.0.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.9.7, <= 2.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:salesforce:tough-cookie:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
>= 5.0.6.0, <= 5.0.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:api_connect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0.7.0, <= 5.0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:api_connect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:api_connect:5.0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0236 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (13)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tough-cookieFixed in: 2.3.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2Fixed in: nodejs-0:0.10.47-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2Fixed in: nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.1-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3Fixed in: nodejs-0:0.10.47-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3Fixed in: nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.1-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-0:0.10.47-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.1-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: nodejs010-nodejs-tough-cookie

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-qhv9-728r-6jqgmedium

ReDoS via long string of semicolons in tough-cookie

Oct 10, 2018
redhatCVE-2016-1000232Moderate

nodejs-tough-cookie: regular expression DoS via Cookie header with many semicolons

Jul 22, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:2101
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2912
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2016-1000232
Third Party Advisory
github.com / salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/615627206357d997d5e6ff9da158997de05235ae
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/e4fc2e0f9ee1b7a818d68f0ac7ea696f377b1534
PatchThird Party Advisory
ibm.com / blogs/psirt/ibm-security-bulletin-ibm-api-connect-is-affected-by-node-js-tough-cookie-module-vulnerability-to-a-denial-of-service-cve-2016-1000232
Third Party Advisory
npmjs.com / advisories/130
Third Party Advisory