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CVE-2022-29266 (GCVE-0-2022-29266)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-20 07:15 – Updated: 2024-08-03 06:17
VLAI
Title
apisix/jwt-auth may leak secrets in error response
Summary
In APache APISIX before 3.13.1, the jwt-auth plugin has a security issue that leaks the user's secret key because the error message returned from the dependency lua-resty-jwt contains sensitive information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache APISIX Affected: Apache APISIX , ≤ 2.13.0 (custom)
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Credits
Discovered and reported by a team from Kingdee Software (China) Ltd. consisting of Zhongyuan Tang, Hongfeng Xie, and Bing Chen.
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