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 v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23541
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: auth0 on WordPress
Affected software:
node-jsonwebtoken
node-jsonwebtoken
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-23541
Install updates from vendor's website.