cve/2017/CVE-2017-16013.md

### [CVE-2017-16013](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16013)
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### Description

hapi is a web and services application framework. When hapi >= 15.0.0 <= 16.1.0 encounters a malformed `accept-encoding` header an uncaught exception is thrown. This may cause hapi to crash or to hang the client connection until the timeout period is reached.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/3466

#### Github
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