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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa ↗
- https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 ↗
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2 ↗