Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-15896

Title: Nodejs Node.Js Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-15896.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 11, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-15896: Node.js was affected by OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2017-3737 in regards to the use of SSL_read() due to TLS handshake failure. The result was that an active network attacker could send application data to Node.js using the TLS or HTTP2 modules in a way that bypassed TLS authentication and encryption.

Impacted Vendors

nodejs 1

joyent 1

Reference Links

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/ https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns