Payment forgery via brute-forced SHA-1 signing key
Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026
Weak payment-signature hashing in BPCE Payment Services Systempay 1.0 allows remote attackers to recover the production secret key. The integration exposes signed POST fields and their SHA-1 digest, allowing offline comparison of candidate 16-character keys against a captured signature. A merchant must use the Systempay SHA-1 signing flow and expose a legitimate payment submission; key recovery permits forged signatures and altered transaction amounts.
Summary
What happened
Weak payment-signature hashing in BPCE Payment Services Systempay 1.0 allows remote attackers to recover the production secret key. The integration exposes signed POST fields and their SHA-1 digest, allowing offline comparison of candidate 16-character keys against a captured signature. A merchant must use the Systempay SHA-1 signing flow and expose a legitimate payment submission; key recovery permits forged signatures and altered transaction amounts.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-37168
- Published
- May 13, 2026
- Updated
- May 13, 2026
- Vendor
- BPCE Payment Services
- Product
- Systempay
- Classifications
- CWE-328, T1565.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 13, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 13, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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Public exploit references
- Ecommerce Systempay 1.0 - Production KEY Brute Forceproof of concept · demonstrated
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