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HIGH7.5

GHSA-x9w5-v3q2-3rhw

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

Quick fix

GHSA-x9w5-v3q2-3rhw — browserify-sign: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install browserify-sign@4.2.2

Details

### 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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Affected packages

npm/browserify-sign
Introduced in: 2.6.0Fixed in: 4.2.2
Fixnpm install browserify-sign@4.2.2

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