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FKIE_CVE-2017-16005

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-04 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:08

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
support@hackerone.com	https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature/issues/10	Patch, Third Party Advisory
support@hackerone.com	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/318	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature/issues/10	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/318	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	joyent	http-signature	*

JSON

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    },
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}

CVE-2017-16005 (GCVE-0-2017-16005)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:19

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature/issues/10	x_refsource_MISC
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/318	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	http-signature node module	Affected: <=0.9.11

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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