CVE-2026-35041

medium

Description

fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. From 5.0.0 to 6.2.0, a denial-of-service condition exists in fast-jwt when the allowedAud verification option is configured using a regular expression. Because the aud claim is attacker-controlled and the library evaluates it against the supplied RegExp, a crafted JWT can trigger catastrophic backtracking in the JavaScript regex engine, resulting in significant CPU consumption during verification. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.2.1.

References

https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/security/advisories/GHSA-cjw9-ghj4-fwxf

https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/releases/tag/v6.2.1

https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/pull/595

https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/commit/b0be0ca161593836a153d5180ca5358ad9b5de94

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-09

Updated: 2026-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003