FKIE_CVE-2016-2515
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-04-13 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:44
Severity
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 (1) header or (2) URI that is matched against an improper regular expression.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| hawk_project | hawk | 3.1.2 | |
| hawk_project | hawk | 4.1.0 |
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:44:12.203",
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