CVE-2016-2515 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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 https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5