CVE-2017-16025: Improper Authentication

June 4, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

Nes contains a denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16025

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