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CVE-2016-2515

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Date: April 13, 2016

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.

Language: JS

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Related Resources (11)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2515
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/77
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-2515

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CWE-1333

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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