High
Security advisory
Strapi through 4.5.5 does not verify the access or ID tokens issued during the OAuth flow when the AWS Cognito login provider is used for authentication. A remote attacker could forge an ID token that is signed using the 'None' type algorithm to bypass authentication and impersonate any user that use AWS Cognito for authentication.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-22893
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 03:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Strapi through 4.5.5 does not verify the access or ID tokens issued during the OAuth flow when the AWS Cognito login provider is used for authentication. A remote attacker could forge an ID token that is signed using the 'None' type algorithm to bypass authentication and impersonate any user that use AWS Cognito for authentication.
osv:CVE-2023-22893
Complete source record
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22893",
"https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases",
"https://strapi.io/blog/security-disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-cve",
"https://www.ghostccamm.com/blog/multi_strapi_vulns/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2023-04-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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