CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16005

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-06-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-347

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• joyent http-signature (<= 0.9.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References