High
Security advisory
The PHP JOSE Library by Gree Inc. before version 2.2.1 is vulnerable to key confusion/algorithm substitution in the JWS component resulting in bypassing the signature verification via crafted tokens.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5431
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The PHP JOSE Library by Gree Inc. before version 2.2.1 is vulnerable to key confusion/algorithm substitution in the JWS component resulting in bypassing the signature verification via crafted tokens.
osv:CVE-2016-5431
Complete source record
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