CVE-2022-23540
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 18:02
Modified
2024-08-03 03:43
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Summary
jsonwebtoken vulnerable to signature validation bypass due to insecure default algorithm in jwt.verify()
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/commit/e1fa9dcc12054a8681db4e6373da1b30cf7016e3Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/security/advisories/GHSA-qwph-4952-7xr6Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007/
Impacted products
auth0node-jsonwebtoken
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