CVE-2016-2515
Hawk Regular Expression Denial of Service
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.
INFO
Published Date :
April 13, 2016, 4:59 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2016-2515 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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CVE-2016-2515 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/1 Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/20/2 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721 Added Reference https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa Added Reference https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 Added Reference https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 20, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:hawk_project:hawk:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:hawk_project:hawk:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 No Types Assigned https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168 Patch Changed Reference Type https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa No Types Assigned https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa Patch Added CWE CWE-399 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 15, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2016-2515 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2016-2515
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
3.16 }} -1.16%
score
0.85756
percentile