CVE-2016-2515
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2515
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2515.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2515
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-04-13T16:59:13Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-20T10:47:25Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168
Affected packages
Git / github.com/mozilla/hawk
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/mozilla/hawk
- Events
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IntroducedLast AffectedFixed
- Database specific
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Show details
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