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CVE-2022-23541

jsonwebtoken's insecure implementation of key retrieval function could lead to Forgeable Public/Private Tokens from RSA to HMAC

Published: Dec 22, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-287
5.0MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.8%
Top 49.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

jsonwebtoken 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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:LUI:NS:UC:LI:LA:L
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-287CWE-1259NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

jsonwebtokenauth0
SaaS
Security Products / identity-access-mgmt
jsonwebtokennpmOSS Libraries
node-jsonwebtokenauth0
SaaS
Security Products / identity-access-mgmt
auth0commercialSecurity Productsaka auth0.js, nextjs-auth0, login by auth0
npmpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/commit/e1fa9dcc12054a8681db4e6373da1b30cf7016e3
github.com
https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/releases/tag/v9.0.0
github.com
https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/security/advisories/GHSA-hjrf-2m68-5959
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Dec 22, 2022
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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