CVE-2017-16005: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

June 4, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16005

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