Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting pyjwt package, versions [1.5.0,2.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYJWT-2840625
  • published20 May 2022
  • disclosed12 May 2022
  • creditAapo Oksman (@aapooksman)

Introduced: 12 May 2022

CVE-2022-29217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PyJWT to version 2.4.0 or higher.

Overview

PyJWT is a Python implementation of RFC 7519.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm via non-blacklisted public key formats, leading to key confusion.

CVSS Scores

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