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SCA: security update for nes (GHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrx)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421842

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-16025)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421842

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16025

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16025

cwe: CWE-400