GHSA-c8v6-786g-vjx6Medium

json-jwt allows bypass of identity checks via a sign/encryption confusion attack

Published
February 29, 2024
Last Modified
March 6, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The json-jwt (aka JSON::JWT) gem 1.16.x before 1.16.6, 1.15.x before 1.15.3.1 for Ruby sometimes allows bypass of identity checks via a sign/encryption confusion attack. For example, JWE can sometimes be used to bypass JSON::JWT.decode.

🎯 Affected products2

  • rubygems/json-jwt:>= 1.16.0, < 1.16.6
  • rubygems/json-jwt:< 1.15.3.1

🔗 References (8)