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

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Threat Intelligence

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

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMNIMBUSDS-536068
  • published26 Nov 2019
  • disclosed15 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17195  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

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

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