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Http-signature is a "Reference implementation of Joyent's HTTP Signature Scheme". In versions <=0.9.11, http-signature signs only the header values, but not the header names. This makes http-signature vulnerable to header forgery. Thus, if an attacker can intercept a request, he can swap header names and change the meaning of the request without changing the signature.

GHSA-q257-vv4p-fg92 — Header Forgery in http-signature

Affected: npm: http-signature

Affected versions of `http-signature` contain a vulnerability which can allow an attacker in a privileged network position to modify header names and change the meaning of the request, without requiring an updated signature.

This problem occurs because vulnerable versions of `http-signature` sign the contents of headers, but not the header names.

## Proof of Concept

Consider this to be the initial, untampered request: ```http POST /pay HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:31:40 GMT X-Payment-Source: src@money.com X-Payment-Destination: dst@money.com Authorization: Signature keyId="Test",algorithm="rsa-sha256",headers="x-payment-source x-payment-destination" MDyO5tSvin5... ```

And the request is intercepted and tampered as follows: ```http X-Payment-Source: dst@money.com // Emails switched X-Payment-Destination: src@money.com Authorization: Signature keyId="Test",algorithm="rsa-sha256",headers="x-payment-destination x-payment-source" MDyO5tSvin5... ```

In the resulting responses, both requests would pass signature verification without issue. ``` src@money.com\n dst@money.com\n ```

## Recommendation

Update to version 0.10.0 or higher.

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