CVE-2016-2515

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.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 7.8 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

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

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa	Patch
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168	Patch
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:hawk_project:hawk:3.1.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hawk_project:hawk:4.1.0:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2016-04-13 16:59

Updated : 2023-12-10 11:46

NVD link : CVE-2016-2515

Mitre link : CVE-2016-2515

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-2515

JSON object : View

Products Affected

hawk_project

hawk

CWE

CWE-399

Resource Management Errors

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