PYSEC-2017-24

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2017-11424
Aliases
GHSA-r9jw-mwhq-wp62

Description

In PyJWT 1.5.0 and below the `invalid_strings` check in `HMACAlgorithm.prepare_key` does not account for all PEM encoded public keys. Specifically, the PKCS1 PEM encoded format would be allowed because it is prefaced with the string `-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----` which is not accounted for. This enables symmetric/asymmetric key confusion attacks against users using the PKCS1 PEM encoded public keys, which would allow an attacker to craft JWTs from scratch.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · pyjwtintroduced 0, fixed 1.5.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database