Bug 1588846 (CVE-2017-16005) - CVE-2017-16005 nodejs-http-signature: HTTP header forgery
Summary: CVE-2017-16005 nodejs-http-signature: HTTP header forgery
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-16005
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1588847 1588848 1588849
Blocks: 1588850
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Reported: 2018-06-07 23:53 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:28:26 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 23:53:03 UTC 
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.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature/issues/10

External references:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/318
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 23:53:34 UTC 
Created nodejs-http-signature tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1588847]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1588848]
Comment 3 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2018-06-13 21:14:24 UTC 
The current versions (0.10.0 for nodejs4 and 1.1.1 for nodejs6) of http-signature shipped in Red Hat Software Collections are not affected.
Comment 4 Jason Shepherd 2018-06-27 06:11:25 UTC 
The current versions of http-signature used in RHMAP 4.6 are not affected.
Comment 5 Jason Shepherd 2018-06-27 06:12:51 UTC 
The current version of http-signature (0.11.0-1.el7aos) used in OCP 3.x are not affected.
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