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SCA: security update for com.jason-goodwin:authentikat-jwt_2.12 (GHSA-3rhm-67j6-42jq)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422860

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A time-sensitive equality check on the JWT signature in the JsonWebToken.validate method in
 main/scala/authentikat/jwt/JsonWebToken.scala in authentikat-jwt (aka com.jason-goodwin/authentikat-jwt)
 version 0.4.5 and earlier allows the supplier of a JWT token to guess bit after bit of the signature by
 repeating validation requests. (CVE-2017-18239)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3rhm-67j6-42jq

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422860

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18239

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18239