GHSA-vm9r-h74p-hg97
jose vulnerable to untrusted JWK header key acceptance during signature verification
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Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
A vulnerability in `jose` versions up to and including `0.3.5` could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to forge valid JWS/JWT tokens by using a key embedded in the JOSE header (`jwk`).
The vulnerability exists because key selection could treat header-provided `jwk` as a verification candidate even when that key was not present in the trusted key store. Since JOSE headers are untrusted input, an attacker could exploit this by creating a token payload, embedding an attacker-controlled public key in the header, and signing with the matching private key.
Applications using affected versions for token verification are impacted.
### Patches
Upgrade to `0.3.5+1` or later.
### Workarounds
Reject tokens where header `jwk` is present unless that `jwk` matches a key already present in the application's trusted key store.
### Resources
Fix commit: [fix: improved key resolution in JsonWebKeyStore](https://github.com/appsup-dart/jose/commit/b07799aac1f56a9a21483feac026272aab30cc5d)
References
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