GMS-2015-7: JWT Verification bypass

March 31, 2015

It is possible for an attacker to bypass verification when “a token digitally signed with an asymetric key (RS/ES family) of algorithms but instead the attacker send a token digitally signed with a symmetric algorithm (HS* family)”.

References

auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/
github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/1cce55e27adf0274193eb1cd74b927a398a3df4b

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