Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.identitymodel.tokens package, versions [,5.1.1)
Attack Complexity
Low
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snyk-id
SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTIDENTITYMODELTOKENS-60016
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published
10 Jan 2017
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disclosed
10 Jan 2017
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credit
Unknown
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.