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OESA-2022-1667 (CVE-2022-29167)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2022-05-20 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website

Summary

nodejs-hawk security update

Details

Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme using a message authentication code (MAC) algorithm to provide partial HTTP request cryptographic verification.

Security Fix(es):

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)

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29167	ADVISORY

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  "id": "OESA-2022-1667",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:04:56Z",
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  ],
  "summary": "nodejs-hawk security update",
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CVE-2022-29167 (GCVE-0-2022-29167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-05 22:55 – Updated: 2025-04-23 18:30

Title

ReDoS vulnerability in header parsing in hawk

Summary

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()`.

Severity

7.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:07 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/mozilla/hawk/security/advisori…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/mozilla/hawk/pull/286	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
mozilla	hawk	Affected: < 9.0.1

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