High
Security advisory
The Microsoft Azure Active Directory Passport (aka Passport-Azure-AD) library 1.x before 1.4.6 and 2.x before 2.0.1 for Node.js does not recognize the validateIssuer setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted token.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7191
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Microsoft Azure Active Directory Passport (aka Passport-Azure-AD) library 1.x before 1.4.6 and 2.x before 2.0.1 for Node.js does not recognize the validateIssuer setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted token.
osv:CVE-2016-7191
Complete source record
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