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GHSA-44PW-H2CW-W3VQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-23 20:18 – Updated: 2022-05-23 20:18

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Hawk

Details

Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme providing mechanisms for making authenticated HTTP requests with partial cryptographic verification of the request and response, covering the HTTP method, request URI, host, and optionally the request payload. Hawk used a regular expression to parse Host HTTP header (Hawk.utils.parseHost()), which was subject to regular expression DoS attack - meaning each added character in the attacker's input increases the computation time exponentially. parseHost() was patched in 9.0.1 to use built-in URL class to parse hostname instead.Hawk.authenticate() accepts options argument. If that contains host and port, those would be used instead of a call to utils.parseHost().

Severity ?

7.4 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq",
  "modified": "2022-05-23T20:18:14Z",
  "published": "2022-05-23T20:18:14Z",
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  "summary": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Hawk"
}

CVE-2022-29167 (GCVE-0-2022-29167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-05 22:55 – Updated: 2025-04-23 18:30

Summary

Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme providing mechanisms for making authenticated HTTP requests with partial cryptographic verification of the request and response, covering the HTTP method, request URI, host, and optionally the request payload. Hawk used a regular expression to parse `Host` HTTP header (`Hawk.utils.parseHost()`), which was subject to regular expression DoS attack - meaning each added character in the attacker's input increases the computation time exponentially. `parseHost()` was patched in `9.0.1` to use built-in `URL` class to parse hostname instead. `Hawk.authenticate()` accepts `options` argument. If that contains `host` and `port`, those would be used instead of a call to `utils.parseHost()`.

Severity ?

7.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/mozilla/hawk/security/advisori…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/mozilla/hawk/pull/286	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mozilla	hawk	Affected: < 9.0.1

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Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-44PW-H2CW-W3VQ

CVE-2022-29167 (GCVE-0-2022-29167)

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