CAPEC™ 461: Web Services API Signature Forgery Leveraging Hash Function Extension Weakness

Description

An adversary utilizes a hash function extension/padding weakness, to modify the parameters passed to the web service requesting authentication by generating their own call in order to generate a legitimate signature hash (as described in the notes), without knowledge of the secret token sometimes provided by the web service.

Source: CAPEC™ 461

ASVS (5.0): 11.2.2, 11.2.5, 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.3.3, 11.3.5, 11.4.1, 16.3.3, 16.3.4, 16.5.3

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