Authlib
CVE-2024-37568
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A04:2025 - Cryptographic Failures
ASVS 5.0
V11 - Cryptography Signature verification
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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lepture Authlib before 1.3.1 has algorithm confusion with asymmetric public keys. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in pypi
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-347. lepture Authlib before 1.3.1 has algorithm confusion with asymmetric public keys. Unless an algorithm is specified in a jwt.decode call, HMAC verification is allowed with any asymmetric public key. (This is similar to CVE-2022-29217 and CVE-2024-33663.) Affected products include: Authlib. Version information: before 1.3.1.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
lepture Authlib before 1.3.1 has algorithm confusion with asymmetric public keys. Unless an algorithm is specified in a jwt.decode call, HMAC verification is allowed with any asymmetric public key. (This is similar to CVE-2022-29217 and CVE-2024-33663.)
Blast Radius
ecosystem impact- 31 pypi packages depend on authlib (15 direct, 16 indirect)
Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 1.3.1.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Authlib is a Python library which builds OAuth and OpenID Connect servers. [CVSS 5.7 MEDIUM]
Authentication bypass in Authlib (Python OAuth/OpenID Connect library) versions 1.6.5 through 1.6.6 allows remote attack
Authlib is a Python library which builds OAuth and OpenID Connect servers. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerab
Authlib's JOSE/JWS verification path (through 1.6.4, with 1.6.5 as the fix) decodes attacker-supplied JWT/JWS header and
Memory exhaustion in joserfc before 1.7.6 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to force a roughly token-sized extra a
Unbounded DEFLATE decompression in Authlib's JWE zip=DEF handling (authlib/jose/rfc7518/jwe_zips.py) lets a small, valid
Signature verification bypass in Authlib 1.7.2 and earlier allows unauthenticated remote attackers to have crafted JWS J
Poisoned OAuth/OIDC discovery metadata in Authlib 1.7.2 and earlier allows an attacker who controls or intercepts the me
Server-side request forgery in Authlib's RFC 9101 JWTAuthenticationRequest (JAR) extension lets unauthenticated remote a
Resource exhaustion in joserfc (versions 1.3.4-1.6.5) is possible because the RFC7797 unencoded-payload (b64=false) JWS
Token forgery in the Authlib Python library before 1.9.1 lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker mint HS256, HS384 or HS
JWT signature-verification bypass in the Python Authlib library (1.3.1 through 1.8.0) lets a remote attacker who knows o
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