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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:50

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

apisix/jwt-auth may leak secrets in error response

Details

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.

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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

Title

apisix/jwt-auth may leak secrets in error response

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/20/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache APISIX	Affected: Apache APISIX , ≤ 2.13.0 (custom)

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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