CVE-2016-2515 – hawk

Package

Manager: npm
Name: hawk
Vulnerable Version: >=4.0.0 <4.1.1 || >=0 <3.1.3

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.05129 pctl0.89466

Details

Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk 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.

Metadata

Created: 2018-07-31T22:52:00Z
Modified: 2021-09-14T19:39:20Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/07/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-1333"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc
Finding: F211
Auto approve: 1