CVE-2021-44878

Summary

CVECVE-2021-44878
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-06 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-13 15:51:00 UTC
DescriptionIf an OpenID Connect provider supports the "none" algorithm (i.e., tokens with no signature), pac4j v5.3.0 (and prior) does not refuse it without an explicit configuration on its side or for the "idtoken" response type which is not secure and violates the OpenID Core Specification. The "none" algorithm does not require any signature verification when validating the ID tokens, which allows the attacker to bypass the token validation by injecting a malformed ID token using "none" as the value of "alg" key in the header with an empty signature value.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-347

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pac4j Pac4j All All All All
Application Pac4j Pac4j All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
reinforce security on OIDC · pac4j/pac4j@22b82ff · GitHub MISC github.com
Final: OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 1 MISC openid.net
pac4j: security for Java MISC www.pac4j.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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