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GHSA-C7HR-J4MJ-J2W6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-10-09 00:38 – Updated: 2020-08-31 18:07

Summary

Verification Bypass in jsonwebtoken

Details

Versions 4.2.1 and earlier of jsonwebtoken are affected by a verification bypass vulnerability. This is a result of weak validation of the JWT algorithm type, occuring when an attacker is allowed to arbitrarily specify the JWT algorithm.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.2.2 or later.

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  "id": "GHSA-c7hr-j4mj-j2w6",
  "modified": "2020-08-31T18:07:57Z",
  "published": "2018-10-09T00:38:30Z",
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CVE-2015-9235 (GCVE-0-2015-9235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-29 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:05

Summary

In jsonwebtoken node module before 4.2.2 it is possible for an attacker to bypass verification when a token digitally signed with an asymmetric key (RS/ES family) of algorithms but instead the attacker send a token digitally signed with a symmetric algorithm (HS* family).

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

Assigner

hackerone

References

URL

Tags

	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/17	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/commit…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulner…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.timmclean.net/2015/02/25/jwt-alg-none.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	HackerOne	jsonwebtoken node module	Affected: <4.2.2

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