GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-7mpx-vg3c-cmr4 Improper Authentication in react-adal

HIGH Published 2021-04-13 Modified 2021-04-09 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-7787
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
react-adal
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287
Reviewed
2021-04-09

Affected packages

• npm react-adal: < 0.5.1 → fixed in 0.5.1

Description

This affects versions of react-adal < 0.5.1. It is possible for a specially crafted JWT token and request URL can cause the nonce, session and refresh values to be incorrectly validated, causing the application to treat an attacker-generated JWT token as authentic. The logical defect is caused by how the nonce, session and refresh values are stored in the browser local storage or session storage. Each key is automatically appended by ||. When the received nonce and session keys are generated, the list of values is stored in the browser storage, separated by ||, with || always appended to the end of the list. Since || will always be the last 2 characters of the stored values, an empty string ("") will always be in the list of the valid values. Therefore, if an empty session parameter is provided in the callback URL, and a specially-crafted JWT token contains an nonce value of "" (empty string), then adal.js will consider the JWT token as authentic.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-7787 This affects all versions of package react-adal. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References