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CVE-2023-46234

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46234 is a signature forgery vulnerability in the browserify-sign package, affecting browserify-sign and related Debian Linux distributions. The flaw, an upper bound check issue in the dsaVerify function, allows attackers to craft signatures that can be validated by any public key. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to a complete loss of integrity (I:H) without requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:browserify:browserify-sign:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (23)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 reaper 3.1.1-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.1.1-9
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: browserify-signFixed in: 4.2.2
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2 on RHEL 9Fixed in: rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9:1.2-154
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: browserify-sign
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-certification
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Dev SpacesFixed in: devspaces/dashboard-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-db-migration-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-collector-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-es-index-cleaner-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-es-rollover-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-ingester-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-query-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS)Fixed in: rhods/odh-dashboard-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Dev SpacesFixed in: devspaces/traefik-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-all-in-one-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2Fixed in: browserify-sign
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-console
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift ServerlessFixed in: browserify-sign

Vendor Advisories (3)

npmGHSA-x9w5-v3q2-3rhwhigh

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

Oct 26, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-46234Important

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

Oct 26, 2023
microsoft2023-Oct/CVE-2023-46234Important

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

Oct 10, 2023

References

github.com / browserify/browserify-sign/commit/85994cd6348b50f2fd1b73c54e20881416f44a30
Third Party Advisory
github.com / browserify/browserify-sign/security/advisories/GHSA-x9w5-v3q2-3rhw
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00040.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/3HUE6ZR5SL73KHL7XUPAOEL6SB7HUDT2
Release Notes
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/6PVVPNSAGSDS63HQ74PJ7MZ3MU5IYNVZ
Release Notes
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5539
Third Party Advisory