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()`.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - angular: XSS vulnerability (CVE-2021-4231)

  - 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)

  - A Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw was found in Function interpolateName in     interpolateName.js in webpack loader-utils 2.0.0 via the url variable in interpolateName.js.
    (CVE-2022-37603)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - angular: XSS vulnerability (CVE-2021-4231)

  - 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)

  - A Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw was found in Function interpolateName in     interpolateName.js in webpack loader-utils 2.0.0 via the url variable in interpolateName.js.
    (CVE-2022-37603)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6116-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that hawk incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3246 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
202216	RHEL 9 : gjs (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
202215	RHEL 8 : gjs (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
195329	RHEL 7 : hawk (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195327	RHEL 6 : hawk (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
176479	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : hawk vulnerability (USN-6116-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
169284	Debian DLA-3246-1 : node-hawk - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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