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()`.
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Advisories
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Debian DLA |
DLA-3246-1 | node-hawk security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2022-2298 | 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()`. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Hawk |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6116-1 | hawk vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-23T18:30:44.456Z
Reserved: 2022-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-29167
Updated: 2024-08-03T06:17:54.086Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-05-05T23:15:09.083
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:58:37.553
Link: CVE-2022-29167
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Debian DLA
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