CVE-2016-2515
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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References
- 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
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2515
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/77
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.