CVE-2016-2515
HIGH7.5EPSS 5.3%Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Published: 7/31/2018Modified: 11/8/2023
Description
Versions of `hawk` prior to 3.1.3, or 4.x prior to 4.1.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability related to excessively long headers and URI's. ## Recommendation Update to hawk version 4.1.1 or later.
Affected packages (1)
- npm/hawk>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2515
- PATCHhttps://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721
- WEBhttps://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa
- WEBhttps://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168
- WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/77
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2