CVE-2017-16007
node-jose is a JavaScript implementation of the JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) for current web browsers and node.js-based…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.91%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
node-jose is a JavaScript implementation of the JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) for current web browsers and node.js-based servers. node-jose earlier than version 0.9.3 is vulnerable to an invalid curve attack. This allows an attacker to recover the private secret key when JWE with Key Agreement with Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Static (ECDH-ES) is used.
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 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.91% · top 40% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
HackerOne · node-jose node module
- affected <0.9.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmnode-joseGHSA-rvj9-8cvx-3vq9 (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- https://gist.github.com/asanso/fa25685348051ef6a28d49aa0f27a4ae (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/324 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2017/03/critical-vulnerability-in-json-web.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/cisco/node-jose (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-2018-0319 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rvj9-8cvx-3vq9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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