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Json-jwt did not verify the cryptographic signature for data

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 31, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 25, 2023

Package

bundler json-jwt (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 0.5.1, < 1.9.4

Patched versions

1.9.4

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 31, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Aug 25, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.097%
(42nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1000539

GHSA ID

GHSA-mj4x-wcxf-hm8x

Source code

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