CVE-2020-7787

HIGH

react-adal < 0.5.1 - Improper Authentication via Empty Nonce and Session Values

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

This affects all versions of package react-adal. It is possible for a specially crafted JWT token and request URL can cause the nonce, session and refresh values to be incorrectly validated, causing the application to treat an attacker-generated JWT token as authentic. The logical defect is caused by how the nonce, session and refresh values are stored in the browser local storage or session storage. Each key is automatically appended by ||. When the received nonce and session keys are generated, the list of values is stored in the browser storage, separated by ||, with || always appended to the end of the list. Since || will always be the last 2 characters of the stored values, an empty string ("") will always be in the list of the valid values. Therefore, if an empty session parameter is provided in the callback URL, and a specially-crafted JWT token contains an nonce value of "" (empty string), then adal.js will consider the JWT token as authentic.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-REACTADAL-1018907
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/salvoravida/react-adal/pull/115

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2
EPSS 0.0127
EPSS Percentile 66.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (2)
npm/react-adal 0 - 0.5.1npm
react-adal_project/react-adal
Published Dec 09, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026