highVulnerability

CVE-2026-47074

### Summary `ExAws.SNS.verify_message/1` fetches the signing certificate from the `SigningCertURL` field of the incoming SNS message without validating that the URL uses HTTPS or that its host is an AWS-owned SNS certificate domain. An unauthenticated attacker who can POST to any endpoint that calls `verify_message/1` can supply an attacker-controlled `SigningCertURL`, sign a forged SNS message with their own RSA key, and cause the function to return `:ok`, completely bypassing SNS signature verification. ### Details In `lib/ex_aws/sns.ex` (lines 475–483), `verify_message/1` performs three checks: `validate_message_params/1` (confirms required fields are present), `validate_signature_version/1` (confirms `SignatureVersion == "1"`), then signature verification. The signature step calls `ExAws.SNS.PublicKeyCache.get(message["SigningCertURL"])` and passes the result to `:public_key.verify/4`. Neither `validate_message_params/1` nor any other step checks that `SigningCertURL` is an HTTPS URL or that the hostname matches the expected pattern (e.g. `sns.<region>.amazonaws.com`). `PublicKeyCache.get/1` in `lib/ex_aws/sns/public_key_cache.ex` fetches whatever URL is provided and caches the certificate. The RSA signature then verifies against the attacker's own public key, and `verify_message/1` returns `:ok`. ### PoC 1. Generate an RSA keypair and host the DER/PEM public certificate at any URL reachable from the target server (e.g. `http://attacker.example/cert.pem`). 2. Build a forged `Notification` payload with an arbitrary `TopicArn` and `Message`, compute the canonical string-to-sign per the SNS spec, and sign it with the attacker private key. 3. Set `SigningCertURL` to the attacker URL and `Signature` to the base64-encoded signature. 4. POST the forged payload to any SNS webhook endpoint that calls `ExAws.SNS.verify_message/1`. 5. The function returns `:ok`; the application treats the message as authentic. ### Configurations The application must expose an HTTP

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-8jgf-23q5-x7xx
severity
high
summary
ex_aws_sns: Trusted-attacker `SigningCertURL` permits complete SNS signature bypass
epss_score
0.00226
cve_id
CVE-2026-47074
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-06-26T22:50:27Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8jgf-23q5-x7xx
epss_percentile
0.13286
ghsa_updated
2026-06-30T17:16:17Z

Related Entities (8)

VULNERABLE_TO (2)

[Software]erlang/ex_aws_sns
[Software]erlang/hackney

AFFECTS (2)

[Software]erlang/ex_aws_sns
[Software]erlang/hackney

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

[Weakness]Improper Certificate Validation
[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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