Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-18239 - Unspecified vulnerability in Authentikat-Jwt Project Authentikat-Jwt
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A time-sensitive equality check on the JWT signature in the JsonWebToken.validate method in main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala in authentikat-jwt (aka com.jason-goodwin/authentikat-jwt) version 0.4.5 and earlier allows the supplier of a JWT token to guess bit after bit of the signature by repeating validation requests.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/commit/2d2fa0d40ac8f2f7aa7e9b070fa1a25eee082cb0
- https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/commit/2d2fa0d40ac8f2f7aa7e9b070fa1a25eee082cb0
- https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/issues/12
- https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/issues/12
- https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/pull/36
- https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/pull/36