CVE-2022-23541

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-23541
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-22 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:44:00 UTC
Descriptionjsonwebtoken is an implementation of JSON Web Tokens. Versions `<= 8.5.1` of `jsonwebtoken` library can be misconfigured so that passing a poorly implemented key retrieval function referring to the `secretOrPublicKey` argument from the readme link will result in incorrect verification of tokens. There is a possibility of using a different algorithm and key combination in verification, other than the one that was used to sign the tokens. Specifically, tokens signed with an asymmetric public key could be verified with a symmetric HS256 algorithm. This can lead to successful validation of forged tokens. If your application is supporting usage of both symmetric key and asymmetric key in jwt.verify() implementation with the same key retrieval function. This issue has been patched, please update to version 9.0.0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Auth0 Jsonwebtoken All All All All

References

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Merge pull request from GHSA-8cf7-32gw-wr33 · auth0/node-jsonwebtoken@e1fa9dc · GitHub MISC github.com
Release v9.0.0: Merge pull request from GHSA-8cf7-32gw-wr33 · auth0/node-jsonwebtoken · GitHub MISC github.com
Insecure implementation of key retrieval function could lead to Forgeable Public/Private Tokens from RSA to HMAC · Advisory · auth0/node-jsonwebtoken · GitHub MISC github.com
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