PT-2016-5176 · Hawk · Hawk

Hueniverse · Published 2016-04-13 · Updated 2018-07-31 · CVE-2016-2515

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Hawk versions prior to 3.1.3 Hawk versions 4.x prior to 4.1.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption or partial outage, via a long header or URI that is matched against an improper regular expression. This is related to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability.

Recommendations Update to version 3.1.3 or later for Hawk versions prior to 3.1.3. Update to version 4.1.1 or later for Hawk versions 4.x prior to 4.1.1.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-1333

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2515

GHSA-JCPV-G9RR-QXRC

Affected Products

Hawk

References · 12

• https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa · Patch
• https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2515 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2515 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/77 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721 · Note