Vulnerability CVE-2016-2515
Published: 2016-04-13

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Hawk project -> HAWK 

 References:
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1
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