CVE-2026-31946

CRITICAL

OpenOLAT: Authentication bypass via forged JWT in OIDC implicit flow

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenOlat is an open source web-based e-learning platform for teaching, learning, assessment and communication. From version 10.5.4 to before version 20.2.5, OpenOLAT's OpenID Connect implicit flow implementation does not verify JWT signatures. The JSONWebToken.parse() method silently discards the signature segment of the compact JWT (header.payload.signature), and the getAccessToken() methods in both OpenIdConnectApi and OpenIdConnectFullConfigurableApi only validate claim-level fields (issuer, audience, state, nonce) without any cryptographic signature verification against the Identity Provider's JWKS endpoint. This issue has been patched in version 20.2.5.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 10.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-287 CWE-347
Status published
Products (2)
frentix/openolat 10.5.4 - 20.2.5
OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT >= 10.5.4, < 20.2.5
Published Mar 30, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 31, 2026