Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in node-jsonwebtoken - CVE-2022-23541

 

Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in node-jsonwebtoken - CVE-2022-23541

Published: January 16, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU71181
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23541
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure implementation of key retrieval function. A remote user attacker can cause successful validation of forged tokens.


Affected software

node-jsonwebtoken
QRadar Suite
strapi
Event Streams
IBM Integration Bus
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Spectrum Discover
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Data Replication on Cloud Pak for Data
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
IBM Maximo Application Suite
Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)
IBM Security Verify Information Queue
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
Platform Navigator in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)
IBM App Connect Enterprise
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage)
Operational Decision Manager
IBM Cognos Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2022-23541

Install updates from vendor's website.

node-jsonwebtoken - update to 9.0.0
QRadar Suite - update to 1.10.18.0
strapi - update to 4.5.6
Event Streams - update to 11.1.4
IBM Security Verify Information Queue - update to 10.0.5
IBM App Connect Enterprise - update to 11.0.0.20
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3.26, 23.0.1.4
Spectrum Discover - addressed in versions 2.0.4.8, 2.1.1
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - addressed in versions 2.2.6, 2.3.5, 3.1.0
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.1
IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.2
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.3
Data Replication on Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.5
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage) - update to 4.13.0
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 5.0.3, 7.1.0
IBM Maximo Application Suite - addressed in versions 8.8.7, 8.9.3
Operational Decision Manager - addressed in versions 8.10.5.2 Interim fix 1, 8.11.0.1 Interim fix 30, 8.11.1 Interim fix 24, 8.12.0.1 Interim fix 5
IBM Cognos Analytics - addressed in versions 11.2.4 FP3, 12.0.3
Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) - update to 2022.2.1-5
Platform Navigator in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) - addressed in versions 2022.2.1-6, 2022.4.1-1

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