CVE-2015-9241

HIGH

hapi < 11.1.3 - Denial of Service via If-Modified-Since or Last-Modified Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Certain input passed into the If-Modified-Since or Last-Modified headers will cause an 'illegal access' exception to be raised. Instead of sending a HTTP 500 error back to the sender, hapi node module before 11.1.3 will continue to hold the socket open until timed out (default node timeout is 2 minutes).

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/63

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0214
EPSS Percentile 79.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
hapijs/hapi < 11.1.3
npm/hapi 0 - 11.1.3npm
Published May 29, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026