High severity - Forgeable Public/Private Tokens vulnerability in jws (package.json)

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• Package Manager: npm
• Vulnerable module: jws
• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0, jsonwebtoken@0.4.0 and others

Detailed paths

• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 › jsonwebtoken@0.4.0 › jws@0.2.6
• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 › express-jwt@0.1.3 › jsonwebtoken@0.1.0 › jws@0.2.6

Overview

jws is an implementation of JSON Web Signatures.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass attack, due to the "algorithm" not being enforced in jws.verify(). Attackers are given the opportunity to choose the algorithm sent to the server and generate signatures with arbitrary contents. The server expects an asymmetric key (RSA) but is sent a symmetric key (HMAC-SHA) with RSA's public key, so instead of going through a key validation process, the server will think the public key is actually an HMAC private key.

Remediation

Upgrade jws to version 3.0.0 or later.

References

• Auth0 Blog
  npm:jws:20160726
  (CVE-2016-1000223) jws@0.2.6