Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting ruby-json-jwt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.78% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-RUBYJSONJWT-597531
  • published26 Jun 2018
  • disclosed26 Jun 2018

Introduced: 26 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-1000539  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 ruby-json-jwt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-json-jwt package and not the ruby-json-jwt package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Nov json-jwt version >= 0.5.0 && < 1.9.4 contains a CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in Decryption of AES-GCM encrypted JSON Web Tokens that can result in Attacker can forge a authentication tag. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.4 and later.