CVE-2015-9235

Description

Versions 4.2.1 and earlier of `jsonwebtoken` are affected by a verification bypass vulnerability. This is a result of weak validation of the JWT algorithm type, occuring when an attacker is allowed to arbitrarily specify the JWT algorithm. ## Recommendation Update to version 4.2.2 or later.

Affected packages (1)

• npm/jsonwebtokenfrom 0, < 4.2.2

References (6)

• ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7hr-j4mj-j2w6
• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9235
• WEBhttps://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries
• WEBhttps://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/commit/1bb584bc382295eeb7ee8c4452a673a77a68b687
• WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/17
• WEBhttps://www.timmclean.net/2015/02/25/jwt-alg-none.html