Authentication Bypass Affecting http-auth package, versions <3.2.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-HTTPAUTH-471683
  • published3 Oct 2019
  • disclosed13 Mar 2019
  • creditDmitry Kochin

Introduced: 13 Mar 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-294  (opens in a new tab)

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