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CVE-2017-16005

Updated on 04 Jun 2018

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

Http-signature is a “Reference implementation of Joyent’s HTTP Signature Scheme”. In versions <=0.9.11, http-signature signs only the header values, but not the header names. This makes http-signature vulnerable to header forgery. Thus, if an attacker can intercept a request, he can swap header names and change the meaning of the request without changing the signature.

Details

Affected product:
http-signature
Affected packages:
http-signature @ 0.9.11
Http-signature is a “Reference implementation of Joyent’s HTTP Signature Scheme”. In versions <=0.9.11, http-signature signs only the header values, but not the header names. This makes http-signature vulnerable to header forgery. Thus, if an attacker can intercept a request, he can swap header names and change the meaning of the request without changing the signature.

Fixes