Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting biscuit-auth package, versions <2.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.27% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUST-BISCUITAUTH-2869621
  • published 14 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 14 Jun 2022
  • credit Goichiro Hanaoka, Kazuo Ohta, Yusuke Sakai, Bagus Santoso, Kaoru Takemure, and Yunlei Zhao

How to fix?

Upgrade biscuit-auth to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature which can allow an attacker to create a token with any access level. This is due to a way to forge valid Γ-signatures, an algorithm that is used in the Biscuit specification version 1.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical