node-browserify-sign — security advisory
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.
- Products
- node-browserify-sign
- Affected versions
- 4.2.1-3
- Fixed versions
- 4.2.1-3+deb12u1, 4.2.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-46234
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46234
node-browserify-sign
Fixed versions: 4.2.1-3+deb12u1
node-browserify-sign
Fixed versions: 4.2.2-1
node-browserify-sign
Fixed versions: 4.2.2-1
Complete source record
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