High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP3T). When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15957
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP3T). When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none.
osv:CVE-2020-15957
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15957",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-15957",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in DP3T-Backend-SDK before 1.1.1 for Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP3T). When it is configured to check JWT before uploading/publishing keys, it is possible to skip the signature check by providing a JWT token with alg=none.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-15957",
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"severity": "high",
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"aliases": [
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"GHSA-5m5q-3qw2-3xf3"
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
}
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"affected": [
{
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"type": "GIT",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:58.550927371Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend/compare/v1.0.4...v1.1.0",
"https://github.com/dp-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend",
"https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend/security/advisories/GHSA-5m5q-3qw2-3xf3"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383181,
"published_at": "2020-07-30T14:15:12.26+00:00"
}