CVE-2016-2515

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    CVE-2016-2515

    Published: 13 Apr 2016Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    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

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 66dd8f9b32058c2e834b0976b2f112e19f38ee72
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.1.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2016-2515 | CVE-DB