CVE-2018-1000539 — Nov json-jwt version >= 0

Nov json-jwt version >= 0.5.0 && < 1.9.4 contains a CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in Decryption of AES-GCM encrypted JSON Web Tokens that can result in Attacker can forge a authentication tag. This attack appear to be exploi

01What is this vulnerability?

Nov json-jwt version >= 0.5.0 && < 1.9.4 contains a CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in Decryption of AES-GCM encrypted JSON Web Tokens that can result in Attacker can forge a authentication tag. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.4 and later.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-26T16:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T12:40:47.206Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/nov/json-jwt/pull/62
• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4283