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SCA: security update for hawk (GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409940

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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()`. (CVE-2022-29167)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409940

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29167