CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-3757

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

Published: May 13, 2025 | Modified: May 23, 2025

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3757
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/305.html

Versions of OpenPubkey library prior to 0.10.0 contained a vulnerability that would allow a specially crafted JWS to bypass signature verification.

Weakness

The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Openpubkey	Openpubkey	*	0.10.0 (excluding)

References

https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey

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