CVE-2019-19324 — Xmidt cjwt through 1

Xmidt cjwt through 1.0.1 before 2019-11-25 maps unsupported algorithms to alg=none, which sometimes leads to untrusted accidental JWT acceptance.

01What is this vulnerability?

Xmidt cjwt through 1.0.1 before 2019-11-25 maps unsupported algorithms to alg=none, which sometimes leads to untrusted accidental JWT acceptance.

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: 2020-03-20T17:26:52.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:16:46.888Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/xmidt-org/cjwt/commit/9304d3e94242c1a6df77b21bde0e949392e1040…
• github.com — https://github.com/xmidt-org/cjwt/pull/29#issuecomment-558356866