What is GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4?

GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Low severity. Out-of-bounds Read in njwt

Why does GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4 have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4?

GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4 affects 1 product, including: npm/njwt:\u003c 1.0.0.

GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4LowDisclosed before NVD

Out-of-bounds Read in njwt

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 1, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

Versions of njwt prior to 1.0.0 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds reads when a number is passed into the base64urlEncode function.

On Node.js 6.x or lower this can expose sensitive information and on any other version of Node.js this creates a Denial of Service vulnerability.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 1.0.0.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/njwt:< 1.0.0

🔗 References (3)

https://hackerone.com/reports/321704
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/679
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3qw-9pgp-xpj4