CVE-2016-2515: Hawk Project Hawk

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Hawk Project Hawk: version 3.1.2 only; version 4.1.0 only

Published 2016-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.