Summary
When making authenticated API requests to AWS, the requests must be signed
with your AWS access key. The initial signing algorithm, SigV1, was vulnerable
to collisions. A person-in-the-middle attack would be able to modify signed requests
via specially constructed collisions.
Affected Services
N/A
Remediation
None required, SigV1 is deprecated at this point
Tracked CVEs
No tracked CVEs
References
Contributed by https://github.com/ramimac
Entry Status
Finalized
Disclosure Date
-
Exploitablity Period
until December 18th, 2008
Known ITW Exploitation
-
Detection Methods
-
Piercing Index Rating
-
Discovered by
Colin Percival
