CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-44878

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Published: Jan 06, 2022 | Modified: May 13, 2022
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

If an OpenID Connect provider supports the none algorithm (i.e., tokens with no signature), pac4j v5.3.0 (and prior) does not refuse it without an explicit configuration on its side or for the idtoken response type which is not secure and violates the OpenID Core Specification. The none algorithm does not require any signature verification when validating the ID tokens, which allows the attacker to bypass the token validation by injecting a malformed ID token using none as the value of alg key in the header with an empty signature value.

Weakness

The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pac4j Pac4j * 4.5.5 (excluding)
Pac4j Pac4j 5.0.0 (including) 5.3.1 (excluding)

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