GHSA-g98g-r7gf-2r25CriticalCVSS 9.1

Brute Force Authentication Tags of CookieStore Sessions in Auth0-PHP SDK

Published
May 16, 2025
Last Modified
May 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Overview Session cookies of applications using the Auth0-PHP SDK configured with CookieStore have authentication tags that can be brute forced, which may result in unauthorized access.

Am I Affected? You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following pre-conditions:

  1. Applications using the Auth0-PHP SDK, or the following SDKs that rely on the Auth0-PHP SDK: a. Auth0/symfony, b. Auth0/laravel-auth0, c. Auth0/wordpress,
  2. Session storage configured with CookieStore.

Fix Upgrade Auth0/Auth0-PHP to v8.14.0. As an additional precautionary measure, we recommend rotating your cookie encryption keys. Note that once updated, any previous session cookies will be rejected.

Acknowledgement Okta would like to thank Félix Charette for discovering this vulnerability.

🎯 Affected products1

  • composer/auth0/auth0-php:>= 8.0.0-BETA1, < 8.14.0

🔗 References (8)