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Authentication Bypass Affecting http-auth package, versions <3.2.4

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-HTTPAUTH-471683
  • published 3 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 13 Mar 2019
  • credit Dmitry Kochin
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Introduced: 13 Mar 2019

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How to fix?

Upgrade http-auth to version 3.2.4 or higher.

Overview

http-auth is a package for HTTP basic and digest access authentication.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. If a client specifies large nonceCount then this request can be replayed nonceCount - serverNonce[2] times.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.1 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None