CVE-2016-2515

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Hawk versions prior to 3.1.3 Hawk versions 4.x prior to 4.1.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption or partial outage, via a long header or URI that is matched against an improper regular expression. This is related to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability.

Recommendations Update to version 3.1.3 or later for Hawk versions prior to 3.1.3. Update to version 4.1.1 or later for Hawk versions 4.x prior to 4.1.1.