CVE-2017-16005

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16005
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-04 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:24:00 UTC
DescriptionHttp-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-347

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Joyent Http-signature All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
Security hole: Header names must be included in the signature string · Issue #10 · joyent/node-http-signature · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 984020 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for http-signature (GHSA-q257-vv4p-fg92)
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