CVE-2016-2515

HIGH

hawk < 3.1.3 and 4.x < 4.1.1 - Denial of Service via Long Header or URI

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0337
EPSS Percentile 87.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (3)
hawk_project/hawk 3.1.2
hawk_project/hawk 4.1.0
npm/hawk 4.0.0 - 4.1.1npm
Published Apr 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026