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CVE-2013-7379

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The admin API in the tomato module before 0.0.6 for Node.js does not properly check the access key when it is set to a string, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a string in the access-key header that partially matches config.master.api.access_key.

Affected products

• Ucdok Tomato: through 0.0.5

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/13/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/2
• https://github.com/leizongmin/tomato/commit/9e427d524e04a905312a3294c85e939ed7d57b8c
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/Tomato_API_Admin_Auth_Weakness
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/13/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/2
• https://github.com/leizongmin/tomato/commit/9e427d524e04a905312a3294c85e939ed7d57b8c
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/Tomato_API_Admin_Auth_Weakness

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