CVE-2021-44878

HIGH

pac4j < 4.5.5 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature via OpenID Connect 'none' Algorithm

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Product, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#IDToken
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.pac4j.org/blog/cve_2021_44878_is_this_serious.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0089
EPSS Percentile 54.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-347
Status published
Products (2)
org.pac4j/pac4j-oidc 0 - 4.5.5Maven
pac4j/pac4j < 4.5.5
Published Jan 06, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026