CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-23541

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2022-12-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-12-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-1259, CWE-287

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.

Affected configurations

• auth0 jsonwebtoken (<= 8.5.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-1259 Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment weakness
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References