{"id":"CVE-2015-9241","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-9241","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:05:19.257Z","title":"Certain input passed into the If-Modified-Since or Last-Modified headers will cause an 'illegal access' exception to be raised.","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).","published":"2018-05-29T20:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:36:07.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"support@hackerone.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400","CWE-20"],"affected":["hapijs/hapi"],"epss":{"score":0.02102,"percentile":0.81598,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.10%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/commit/aab2496e930dce5ee1ab28eecec94e0e45f03580","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/63","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/commit/aab2496e930dce5ee1ab28eecec94e0e45f03580","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/63","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9241","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}