CVE-2016-2515
published 2016-04-13CVE-2016-2515: 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…
PriorityP433high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
3.37%
87.2th percentile
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.
Affected
4 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| hawk_project | hawk | — | — |
| hawk_project | hawk | — | — |
| tibco | hawk | >= 0 < 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 |
| tibco | hawk | >= 4.0.0 < 4.1.1 | 4.1.1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.07.8HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
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OSV
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
osv·2018-07-31
CVE-2016-2515 [HIGH] Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Versions of `hawk` prior to 3.1.3, or 4.x prior to 4.1.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability related to excessively long headers and URI's.
## Recommendation
Update to hawk version 4.1.1 or later.
GHSA
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
ghsa·2018-07-31
CVE-2016-2515 [HIGH] CWE-1333 Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Versions of `hawk` prior to 3.1.3, or 4.x prior to 4.1.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability related to excessively long headers and URI's.
## Recommendation
Update to hawk version 4.1.1 or later.
Red Hat
nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
vendor_redhat·2016-01-19·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-2515 [HIGH] nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
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.
Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. Additionally nodejs-hawk is only present as a BuildRequires dependency in the nodejs-request package, the actual hawk functionality is not used in OpenShift Enterprise 3. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Package: nodejs-hawk (Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1) - Under i
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
bugzilla·2016-02-18·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-2515 [HIGH] CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
It was found that specially crafted long headers or uris can cause a minor denial of service.
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa
Discussion:
Created nodejs-hawk tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1309722]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1309723]
---
Statement:
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. Additionally nodejs-hawk is only present as a BuildRequires dependency in the nodejs-request package, the actual hawk functionality is not used in OpenShift Enterprise 3. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classificati
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-02-18·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-2515 [HIGH] CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS [fedora-all]
CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS [epel-all]
bugzilla·2016-02-18·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-2515 [HIGH] CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS [epel-all]
CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS [epel-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora EPEL.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versio
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fahttps://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fahttps://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77
2016-04-13
Published