CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2515
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Hawk before 3.1.3 and 4.x before 4.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a long (1) header or (2) URI that is matched against an improper regular expression.
Affected configurations
• hawk project hawk 3.1.2
• hawk project hawk 4.1.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa Patch
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 Patch
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77 nodesecurity.io
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa Patch
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 Patch
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77 nodesecurity.io