Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt package, versions [,7.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.21% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMNIMBUSDS-536068
  • published 26 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 15 Oct 2019
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt to version 7.8.1 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions. Can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a JWT, which could result in an application crash (potential information disclosure) or a potential authentication bypass.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical