CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-2515

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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 header or URI that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to overload the server, leading to performance degradation or complete service unavailability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to Hawk version 3.1.3 or 4.1.1 to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS