Security advisory

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  "id": "4fd6592acb5bb23c44dcf3d192ab5beabfb72f90f48fa8dcdc6700a6b8a57662",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18239",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-18239",
    "summary": "A time-sensitive equality check on the JWT signature in the JsonWebToken.validate method in main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala in authentikat-jwt (aka com.jason-goodwin/authentikat-jwt) version 0.4.5 and earlier allows the supplier of a JWT token to guess bit after bit of the signature by repeating validation requests.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-18239",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-18239",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-18239",
        "GHSA-3rhm-67j6-42jq"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2d2fa0d40ac8f2f7aa7e9b070fa1a25eee082cb0"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
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                        "fixed": "2d2fa0d40ac8f2f7aa7e9b070fa1a25eee082cb0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18239.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:30.033763781Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/issues/12",
        "https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/pull/36",
        "https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/commit/2d2fa0d40ac8f2f7aa7e9b070fa1a25eee082cb0"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:authentikat-jwt_project:authentikat-jwt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "authentikat-jwt_project:authentikat-jwt",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "0.4.5"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "0.4.5"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "DESCRIPTION"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-18239",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380313,
  "published_at": "2018-03-18T03:29:00.213+00:00"
}