CVE-2022-29167 (High) detected in hawk-3.1.3.tgz

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CVE-2022-29167 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - hawk-3.1.3.tgz

HTTP Hawk Authentication Scheme

Library home page: https://registry.npmjs.org/hawk/-/hawk-3.1.3.tgz

Path to dependency file: /assets/wmt/reveal/package.json

Path to vulnerable library: /assets/wmt/reveal/node_modules/hawk/package.json

Dependency Hierarchy: - grunt-retire-0.3.12.tgz (Root Library) - request-2.67.0.tgz - :x: **hawk-3.1.3.tgz** (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: e18fd672daa5561842258223a173ced78ea399b2

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

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()`.

Publish Date: 2022-05-05

URL: CVE-2022-29167

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: Low - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: None - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://github.com/mozilla/hawk/security/advisories/GHSA-44pw-h2cw-w3vq

Release Date: 2022-05-05

Fix Resolution (hawk): 9.0.1

Direct dependency fix Resolution (grunt-retire): 1.0.4

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