CVE-2022-29167 @ Npm-hawk-3.1.3

[RobertMickleCx]

Vulnerable Package issue exists @ Npm-hawk-3.1.3 in branch master

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().

Namespace: RobertMickleCx
Repository: NodeGoat
Repository Url: https://github.com/RobertMickleCx/NodeGoat
CxAST-Project: RobertMickleCx/NodeGoat
CxAST platform scan: 421abb05-2701-4c6b-8cb3-89f91b91b3aa
Branch: master
Application: NodeGoat
Severity: HIGH
State: NOT_IGNORED
Status: RECURRENT
CWE: CWE-400

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Additional Info
Attack vector: NETWORK
Attack complexity: LOW
Confidentiality impact: NONE
Availability impact: HIGH
Remediation Upgrade Recommendation: 9.0.1

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