Header Forgery Vulnerability in http-signature <=0.9.11

CVE-2017-16005 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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