Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
manfred/httpauth
master @ 49b419c
2
Fixes
0
CVEs
CRITICAL
Peak severity
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
lib/httpauth/digest.rb: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Insecure Deserialization: The use of Marshal.load to deserialize state or files can allow remote code execution if the input source is untrusted or tampered with. This poses a severe risk to any application consuming the serialized output.
Auth Bypass: Incorrect type-matching when checking digest credentials (such as mixing string and symbol representation of option keys) can lead to silent verification failures or bypasses of the digest authentication mechanism entirely.