GHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrx

Denial of Service in nes

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2017-16025

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	nes	< 6.4.1	6.4.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Affected versions of `nes` are vulnerable to denial of service when given an invalid `cookie` header, and websocket authentication is set to `cookie`. Submitting an invalid cookie on the websocket upgrade request will cause the node process to throw and exit. ## Recommendation Update to version 6.4.1 or later.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16025 advisory
https://github.com/hapijs/nes/issues/171 web
https://github.com/hapijs/nes/commit/249ba1755ed6977fbc208463c87364bf884ad655 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrx advisory
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/331 web