HIGH7.5
GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Quick fix
GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc — hawk: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install hawk@4.1.1Details
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.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2515[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168[WEB]
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa[WEB]
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721[WEB]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk[PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/77[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2[WEB]