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Security checkApril 11, 2023

Regular Expression Denial of Service in hawk

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Description

Versions of hawk prior to 3.1.3, or 4.x prior to 4.1.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability related to excessively long headers and URI’s.

Recommendation

Update the hawk package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): **>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1 < 3.1.3**
  • Patched version(s): **4.1.1 3.1.3**

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