CVE-2016-2515

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

3.37%

Published

Apr 13, 2016

Modified

May 6, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit (1)

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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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

Affected Products (2)

hawk_project · hawkvulnerable

References (12)

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

Patch

https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168

Patch

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77

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

Patch

https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168

Patch

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77

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