Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.identitymodel.tokens package, versions [,5.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTIDENTITYMODELTOKENS-60016
  • published10 Jan 2017
  • disclosed10 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2017

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-265  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens to version 5.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens Includes types that provide support for cryptographic operations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. A security vulnerability in the public version of Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens 5.1.0 where tokens signed with symmetric keys could be vulnerable to tampering.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1