CVE-2016-2515
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Published
- 2016-04-13T16:59:13.473Z
- Modified
- 2025-12-05T12:26:14.056399Z
- Severity
-
- 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
-
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
-
- 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/hueniverse/hawk
Git / github.com/mozilla/hawk
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/mozilla/hawk
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
1.*
1.1.1
4.*
4.1.0
v0.*
v0.10.1
v0.10.2
v0.11.0
v0.11.1
v0.12.0
v0.12.1
v0.12.2
v0.13.0
v0.13.1
v0.14.0
v0.15.0
v0.6.1
v0.7.0
v0.7.1
v0.8.1
v0.9.0
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.1.0-pre
v1.1.2
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v2.1.2
v2.1.3
v2.2.0
v2.2.1
v2.2.2
v2.2.3
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.1