nov/json-jwt · Security
Json-jwt did not verify the cryptographic signature for data
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mj4x-wcxf-hm8x
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-1000539
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Description
The json-jwt rubygem version >= 0.5.0 && < 1.9.4 contains a CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in Decryption of AES-GCM encrypted JSON Web Tokens that can result in Attacker can forge a authentication tag. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.4 and later.
CWEs
- CWE-347 · Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000539 ↗
- https://github.com/nov/json-jwt/pull/62 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4283 ↗
- https://github.com/nov/json-jwt/commit/a3b2147f0f6d9aca653e7a30e453d3a92b33413f ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/json-jwt/CVE-2018-1000539.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mj4x-wcxf-hm8x ↗