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CVE-2017-16005

nodejs-http-signature: HTTP header forgery

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · June 7, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')