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Status: Verified (7)

RFC 2617, "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication", June 1999

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 7235, RFC 7615, RFC 7616, RFC 7617

Source of RFC: http (app)

Errata ID: 410

Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Scott Lawrence
Date Reported: 2001-01-05
Report Text:

All known errata for this HTTP RFC will be found at: 
http://purl.org/NET/http-errata and 
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/



Errata ID: 1649
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Ganga Mahesh Siddem
Date Reported: 2009-01-08
Verifier Name: Peter Saint-Andre
Date Verified: 2012-03-21

Section 5 says:

 /* calculate H(A1) as per spec */
      void DigestCalcHA1(
          IN char * pszAlg,
          IN char * pszUserName,
          IN char * pszRealm,
          IN char * pszPassword,
          IN char * pszNonce,
          IN char * pszCNonce,
          OUT HASHHEX SessionKey
          )
      {
            MD5_CTX Md5Ctx;
            HASH HA1;

            MD5Init(&Md5Ctx);
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszUserName, strlen(pszUserName));
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszRealm, strlen(pszRealm));
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszPassword, strlen(pszPassword));
            MD5Final(HA1, &Md5Ctx);
            if (stricmp(pszAlg, "md5-sess") == 0) {
                  MD5Init(&Md5Ctx);
|                 MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, HA1, HASHLEN);
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszNonce, strlen(pszNonce));
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszCNonce, strlen(pszCNonce));
                  MD5Final(HA1, &Md5Ctx);
            };
            CvtHex(HA1, SessionKey);
      };

It should say:

 /* calculate H(A1) as per spec */
      void DigestCalcHA1(
          IN char * pszAlg,
          IN char * pszUserName,
          IN char * pszRealm,
          IN char * pszPassword,
          IN char * pszNonce,
          IN char * pszCNonce,
          OUT HASHHEX SessionKey
          )
      {
            MD5_CTX Md5Ctx;
            HASH HA1;
|           HASHHEX HA1Hex;

            MD5Init(&Md5Ctx);
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszUserName, strlen(pszUserName));
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszRealm, strlen(pszRealm));
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
            MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszPassword, strlen(pszPassword));
            MD5Final(HA1, &Md5Ctx);
            if (stricmp(pszAlg, "md5-sess") == 0) {
|                 CvtHex(HA1, HA1Hex);
                  MD5Init(&Md5Ctx);
|                 MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, HA1Hex, HASHHEXLEN);
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszNonce, strlen(pszNonce));
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, ":", 1);
                  MD5Update(&Md5Ctx, pszCNonce, strlen(pszCNonce));
                  MD5Final(HA1, &Md5Ctx);
            };
            CvtHex(HA1, SessionKey);
      };

Notes:

DigestCalcHA1 sample implemention has to be corrected.

Errata ID: 1959
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Julian Reschke
Date Reported: 2009-12-10
Verifier Name: Alexey Melnikov
Date Verified: 2009-12-27

Section 1.2 p4 says:

       credentials = auth-scheme #auth-param

It should say:

       credentials = auth-scheme ( token | quoted-string | #auth-param )

Notes:

Alexey Melnikov (updated as per suggestion from Paul Leach):

auth-param doesn't allow for parameters with no '=', so Basic is non conformant to the generic syntax.

Multiple versions of token/quoted-string (with no attribute name) is not allowed, as none of the existing scheme not using auth-param supports that.

(Note that RFC 2617 is using BNF from RFC 2616, which allows for implied LWS.)

Errata ID: 2600
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Victor S. Osipov
Date Reported: 2010-11-02
Verifier Name: Peter Saint-Andre
Date Verified: 2011-07-14

Section 3.2.2 says:

digest-uri       = "uri" "=" digest-uri-value
digest-uri-value = request-uri   ; As specified by HTTP/1.1

It should say:

digest-uri       = "uri" "=" <"> digest-uri-value <">
digest-uri-value = request-uri   ; As specified by HTTP/1.1

Notes:

This is an error here that the digest-uri-value is not enclosed in quotation marks;
see the correct example in Section 3.5:

Authorization: Digest username="Mufasa",
realm="testrealm@host.com",
nonce="dcd98b7102dd2f0e8b11d0f600bfb0c093",
uri="/dir/index.html",
. . .

Errata ID: 3720
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Brett Tate
Date Reported: 2013-09-06
Verifier Name: Barry Leiba
Date Verified: 2013-09-06

Section 3.2.2.4 says:

username="Mufasa", realm=myhost@testrealm.com

It should say:

username="Mufasa", realm="myhost@testrealm.com"

Notes:

The realm value within the Authorization header example is missing the quotes.

Errata ID: 606
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Stéphane Bortzmeyer
Date Reported: 2007-10-17
Verifier Name: Alexey Melnikov
Date Verified: 2009-12-21

Section 3.6 says:

These headers are instances of the Proxy-Authenticate and
Proxy-Authorization headers specified in sections 10.33 and 10.34 of the
HTTP/1.1 specification [2] ...

It should say:

These headers are instances of the Proxy-Authenticate and
Proxy-Authorization headers specified in sections 14.33 and 14.34 of the
HTTP/1.1 specification [2] ...

Notes:

Wrong section references in RFC 2616.

Reported by Julian Reschke on an IETF mailing list.

Errata ID: 1431
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Stefan Santesson
Date Reported: 2008-05-29
Verifier Name: Alexey Melnikov
Date Verified: 2009-12-21

Section 3.2.2.1 says:

   If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":

      request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1),     unq(nonce-value)
                                          ":" nc-value
                                          ":" unq(cnonce-value)
                                          ":" unq(qop-value)
                                          ":" H(A2)
                                  ) <">

It should say:

   If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":

      request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1),     unq(nonce-value)
                                          ":" nc-value
                                          ":" unq(cnonce-value)
                                          ":" unq(qop-value)
                                          ":" H(A2)
                                  ) > <">

Notes:

The ">" bracket is missing in the final line, closing the "<" bracket of the first line in "< KD ( H(A1)"...

Status: Rejected (2)

RFC 2617, "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication", June 1999

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 7235, RFC 7615, RFC 7616, RFC 7617

Source of RFC: http (app)

Errata ID: 1914
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Larry Westrick
Date Reported: 2009-10-14
Rejected by: Peter Saint-Andre
Date Rejected: 2011-06-27

Section 3.2.2.1 says:

3.2.2.1 Request-Digest

   If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":

      request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1),     unq(nonce-value)
                                          ":" nc-value
                                          ":" unq(cnonce-value)
                                          ":" unq(qop-value)
                                          ":" H(A2)
                                  ) <">

   If the "qop" directive is not present (this construction is for
   compatibility with RFC 2069):

      request-digest  =
                 <"> < KD ( H(A1), unq(nonce-value) ":" H(A2) ) >
   <">


It should say:

3.2.2.1 Request-Digest

   If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":

      request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1)  ":" unq(nonce-value)
                                          ":" nc-value
                                          ":" unq(cnonce-value)
                                          ":" unq(qop-value)
                                          ":" H(A2)
                                  ) <">

   If the "qop" directive is not present (this construction is for
   compatibility with RFC 2069):

      request-digest  =
                 <"> < KD ( H(A1) ":" unq(nonce-value) ":" H(A2) ) >
   <">


Notes:

Errata 1796 addressing this issue and was rejected, perhaps for editorial or syntax reasons, when the section as it exists does not indicate the need for a ":" between A1 and unq(nonce-value). The ":" is most certainly required between these variables if the result of the hash is to be correct.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
The verifier notes on the rejected Erratum 1796 were as follows:

###

KD is defined in the document as:

KD(secret, data) = H(concat(secret, ":", data))

So KD takes 2 parameters and the text in the RFC is correct in this respect.

###

If there is good reason to pursue this issue further, please do so outside
the errata process.

Errata ID: 1796
Status: Rejected
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Jerry Conrad
Date Reported: 2009-06-19
Rejected by: Alexey Melnikov
Date Rejected: 2009-06-19

Section 3.2.2.1 says:

3.2.2.1 Request-Digest

   If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":

      request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1),     unq(nonce-value)
                                          ":" nc-value
                                          ":" unq(cnonce-value)
                                          ":" unq(qop-value)
                                          ":" H(A2)
                                  ) <">

   If the "qop" directive is not present (this construction is for
   compatibility with RFC 2069):

      request-digest  =
                 <"> < KD ( H(A1), unq(nonce-value) ":" H(A2) ) >
   <">

It should say:

3.2.2.1 Request-Digest

   If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":

      request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1)  ":" unq(nonce-value)
                                          ":" nc-value
                                          ":" unq(cnonce-value)
                                          ":" unq(qop-value)
                                          ":" H(A2)
                                  ) <">

   If the "qop" directive is not present (this construction is for
   compatibility with RFC 2069):

      request-digest  =
                 <"> < KD ( H(A1) ":" unq(nonce-value) ":" H(A2) ) >
   <">

Notes:

The "," after H(A1) should be ":" in two places.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
KD is defined in the document as:

KD(secret, data) = H(concat(secret, ":", data))

So KD takes 2 parameters and the text in the RFC is correct in this respect.

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