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TI-2022-11711 Aliases CVE-2022-29167GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq

ReDoS vulnerability in header parsing in hawk

Priority LOW 35CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 8 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.

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()`.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01101 65th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial hawk (mozilla): 9.0.1hawk (npm): 9.0.1Red Hat: 8 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Mozillahawkbefore 9.0.19.0.1Patch availableCNA
—hawk (npm)before 9.0.19.0.1Patch availableGHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq
  • hawk VendorMozilla Affected before 9.0.1 Fixed in 9.0.1 Patch available CNA
  • hawk (npm) Vendor— Affected before 9.0.1 Fixed in 9.0.1 Patch available GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:hawk:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*before 9.0.1VulnerableMozilla
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:hawk:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* Versions before 9.0.1 Vulnerable ·Mozilla

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA hawk (mozilla) Fixed in 9.0.1
  • Fix · GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq hawk (npm) Fixed in 9.0.1 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
.NET Core 5.0 on Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Fuse 7AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Quay 3AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Not affected: 3 products
  • .NET Core 3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-29167
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq

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