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Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In hawk

Description

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2016-25152. NVD-2016-25153. OSV-2016-25154. GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc5. GCVE-2016-2515

References

1. https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/1682. https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13097214. https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/775. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/16. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2

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