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CVE-2016-10525
When attempting to allow authentication mode `try` in hapi, hapi-auth-jwt2 version 5.1.1 introduced an issue whereby people could bypass…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
When attempting to allow authentication mode `try` in hapi, hapi-auth-jwt2 version 5.1.1 introduced an issue whereby people could bypass authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 15% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
HackerOne · hapi-auth-jwt2 node module
- affected 5.1.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmhapi-auth-jwt2GHSA-mg8r-9g6j-hwv9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/81 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dwyl/hapi-auth-jwt2/pull/112 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dwyl/hapi-auth-jwt2/issues/111 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0315 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mg8r-9g6j-hwv9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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