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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 26, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025

browserify-sign vulnerable via an upper bound check issue in `dsaVerify` that leads to a signature forgery attack

CVE-2023-46234

Description

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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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
browserify-signnpm
>= 2.6.0, < 4.2.24.2.2

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