Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting firebase/php-jwt package, versions <2.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-FIREBASEPHPJWT-70097
  • published 1 Apr 2015
  • disclosed 1 Apr 2015
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-347 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade firebase/php-jwt to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of firebase/php-jwt are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. It treated tokens signed with the none algorithm as a valid token with a verified signature and resulted in giving attackers arbitrary account access.

References

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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