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CVE-2017-18239

A time-sensitive equality check on the JWT signature in the JsonWebToken.validate method in main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala in authentikat-jwt (a…

Impact

A time-sensitive equality check on the JWT signature in the JsonWebToken.validate method in main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala in authentikat-jwt (aka com.jason-goodwin/authentikat-jwt) version 0.4.5 and earlier allows the supplier of a JWT token to guess bit after bit of the signature by repeating validation requests.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Authentikat-Jwt ProjectAuthentikat-Jwt
through 0.4.5

References