CVE-2022-29167

Summary

CVECVE-2022-29167
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-05 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-07-21 16:42:00 UTC
DescriptionHawk 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()`.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1333

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Hawk All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ReDoS vulnerability in header parsing · Advisory · mozilla/hawk · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Parse URLs using stdlib by lotas · Pull Request #286 · mozilla/hawk · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181358 Debian Security Update for node-hawk (CVE-2022-29167)
  • 181441 Debian Security Update for node-hawk (DLA 3246-1)
  • 199372 Ubuntu Security Notification for hawk Vulnerability (USN-6116-1)

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