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Privilege Escalation Affecting auth0-js package, versions <8.0.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-AUTH0JS-72626
  • published 22 Nov 2018
  • disclosed 4 Apr 2018
  • credit Cinta Infinita
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Introduced: 4 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-6873 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade auth0-js to version 8.0.0 or higher.

Overview

auth0-js is a Client Side Javascript toolkit for Auth0 API.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via the parseHash method. It did not properly validate the JWT audience, and therefore allowed tokens intended for one tenant to be used at another.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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