CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability lies in the API Publisher component, which employs a non-cryptographic pseudorandom number generator for generating shared secrets used in Webhook HMAC validation. This weakness allows attackers to predict future secrets, potentially enabling them to forge event payloads with valid signatures and bypass authenticity checks, leading to unauthorized event injection and data manipulation. Organizations utilizing this API Publisher component should prioritize remediation to mitigate risks of data compromise and system integrity breaches.
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Original NVD Description
The API Publisher component previously used a non-cryptographic pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) to create shared secrets for Webhook HMAC validation. This PRNG lacks sufficient entropy for security-sensitive operations, allowing a sophisticated attacker to predict future secrets. This enables malicious actors to forge event payloads with valid HMAC signatures, bypassing the API Gateway's authenticity verification. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to predict shared secrets used for Webhook HMAC validation and forge event payloads with valid signatures. This may enable bypassing API Gateway authenticity checks, leading to unauthorized event injection, data manipulation, or downstream system compromise.
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