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SCA: security update for hawk (GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423433

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2016-2515)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcpv-g9rr-qxrc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423433

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2515

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: 7/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2515

BID: 86319