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Cryptographic Issues Affecting com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt package, versions [,4.39)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMNIMBUSDS-3110417
  • published 9 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 13 May 2022
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2017-12973 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-310 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt to version 4.39 or higher.

Overview

com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt is a library for JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues when it proceeds improperly after detecting an invalid HMAC in authenticated AES-CBC decryption in JWE with the A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, and A256CBC-HS512 encryption methods. Exploiting this vulnerability allows attackers to conduct a padding oracle attack.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
3.1 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None