CVE-2016-2515
Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 5.3%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-2515
To remediate CVE-2016-2515, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- npm/hawk—upgrade to 4.1.1 or later
Is CVE-2016-2515 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 5.3%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |