Authentication Bypass Affecting boa package, versions [0.94.13 ,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BOA-3167921
  • published13 Dec 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2022
  • creditGeorge Tsimpidas

Introduced: 13 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-45956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for boa.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass when it fails to validate the correct security constraint on the HEAD HTTP method allowing everyone to bypass the Basic Authorization mechanism.

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