Bug 2159911 (CVE-2022-23529)

Summary:	CVE-2022-23529 jsonwebtoken: Insecure input validation in jwt.verify function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amctagga, dfreiber, jburrell, ocs-bugs, rogbas, vkumar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	jsonwebtoken 9.0.0	Doc Type:	---
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the jsonwebtoken package. In affected versions of the jsonwebtoken library, if a malicious actor can modify the key retrieval parameter (referring to the secretOrPublicKey argument from the readme link) of the jwt.verify() function, they can perform remote code execution (RCE).	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-02-02 06:45:39 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2159914, 2159915
Bug Blocks:	2159913

Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-01-11 05:05:10 UTC

node-jsonwebtoken is a JsonWebToken implementation for node.js. For versions `<= 8.5.1` of `jsonwebtoken` library, if a malicious actor has the ability to modify the key retrieval parameter (referring to the `secretOrPublicKey` argument from the readme link of the `jwt.verify()` function, they can write arbitrary files on the host machine. Users are affected only if untrusted entities are allowed to modify the key retrieval parameter of the `jwt.verify()` on a host that you control. This issue has been fixed, please update to version 9.0.0.

https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/security/advisories/GHSA-27h2-hvpr-p74q
https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/commit/e1fa9dcc12054a8681db4e6373da1b30cf7016e3