Timing Attack Affecting com.jason-goodwin:authentikat-jwt_2.10 Open this link in a new tab package, versions [0,]
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-COMJASONGOODWIN-31652
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published
21 Mar 2018
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disclosed
5 Nov 2017
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credit
Andrey Fedorov
Introduced: 5 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-18239 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master
branch but not yet published.
Overview
com.jason-goodwin:authentikat-jwt_2.10 is a simple scala-jwt library.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. A time-sensitive equality check in the JsonWebToken.validate
method in main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala
in authentikat-jwt allows the supplier of a JWT token to guess bit after bit of the signature by repeating validation requests.