Security advisory

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  "id": "710703202a069b80a72992594c0c05dc3a230348232b46198398f24b46a3c8f3",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2515",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-2515",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-2515",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-2515",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-2515",
        "GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mozilla/hawk",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "66dd8f9b32058c2e834b0976b2f112e19f38ee72"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b5d51ebfdbbcbb20cd7727622bb270cce5221577"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hawk_project:hawk:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.1.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.1.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hawk_project:hawk:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.1.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.1.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.1.2",
            "4.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2515.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:25.918696784Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/77",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309721",
        "https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa",
        "https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/issues/168"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-2515",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379391,
  "published_at": "2016-04-13T16:59:13.473+00:00"
}