Vulnerability · Published Jul 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15957
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 72% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 28.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/dp-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend/compare/v1.0.4...v1.1.0 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend/security/advisories/GHSA-5m5q-3qw2-3xf3 x_refsource_MISC