CVE-2023-46234

highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.006 · 47 %ileDEEUNLRUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.56% (47th) EPSS
CVSS 7.5 · high
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20 products
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cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

browserify-sign is a package to duplicate the functionality of node's crypto public key functions, much of this is based on Fedor Indutny's work on indutny/tls.js. An upper bound check issue in `dsaVerify` function allows an attacker to construct signatures that can be successfully verified by any public key, thus leading to a signature forgery attack. All places in this project that involve DSA verification of user-input signatures will be affected by this vulnerability. This issue has been patched in version 4.2.2.

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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.5
v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV
v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · NCSC-NL NL
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affected products (20)

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advisories (4)

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  • NCSC-2024-0466Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Atlassian productenNL2024-12-06csaf · ncsc_nlNL

    Atlassian heeft kwetsbaarheden verholpen in diverse producten als Jira, Bamboo en Confluence.

  • WID-SEC-W-2023-2782Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen von SicherheitsvorkehrungenDeutsch2023-10-30csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.

  • WID-SEC-W-2024-3508Atlassian Confluence: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-11-19csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Atlassian Confluence ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, vertrauliche Informationen preiszugeben und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen.

  • GHSA-x9w5-v3q2-3rhwbrowserify-sign upper bound check issue in `dsaVerify` leads to a signature forgery attack2023-10-26ghsa · osvUS

    ### Summary An upper bound check issue in `dsaVerify` function allows an attacker to construct signatures that can be successfully verified by any public key, thus leading to a signature forgery attack. ### Details In `dsaVerify` function, it checks whether the value of the signature is legal by calling function `checkValue`, namely, whether `r` and `s` are both in the interval `[1, q - 1]`. However, the second line of the `checkValue` function wrongly checks the upper bound of the passed parameters, since the value of `b.cmp(q)` can only be `0`, `1` and `-1`, and it can never be greater than `q`. In this way, although the values of `s` cannot be `0`, an attacker can achieve the same effect as zero by setting its value to `q`, and then send `(r, s) = (1, q)` to pass the verification of any public key. ### Impact All places in this project that involve DSA verification of user-input signatures will be affected by this vulnerability. ### Fix PR: Since the temporary private fork was deleted, here's a webarchive of the PR discussion and diff pages: [PR webarchive.zip](https://github.com/browserify/browserify-sign/files/13172957/PR.webarchive.zip)

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