JWT Signature Bypass Affecting com.inversoft:prime-jwt package, versions [,1.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMINVERSOFT-32386
  • published28 Jun 2018
  • disclosed2 May 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2018

CVE-2018-1000531  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade prime-jwt to version 1.3.1 or higher.

Overview

com.inversoft:prime-jwt is a JWT signature encoder and decoder.

Affected versions of this package are vulneravle to JWT Signature Bypass. It allows any non-signed JWT signatures to be decoded and validated by the JWTDecoder class, even when a Verifier object is provided.

CVSS Scores

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