perfood couch-auth up to 0.20.0 Header Host password recovery

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A vulnerability has been found in perfood couch-auth up to 0.20.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Host leads to password recovery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-39655. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in perfood couch-auth up to 0.20.0. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Host with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A host header injection vulnerability exists in the NPM package @perfood/couch-auth versions <= 0.20.0. By sending a specially crafted host header in the forgot password request, it is possible to send password reset links to users which, once clicked, lead to an attacker-controlled server and thus leak the password reset token. This may allow an attacker to reset other users' passwords and take over their accounts.

The weakness was presented 01/03/2024. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-39655 since 08/07/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• perfood

Name

• couch-auth

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20.0

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