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Deployments that authenticate clients only via <tt>client_secret_basic</tt> or <tt>client_secret_post</tt> are not exposed.</p>"}], "value": "The attack requires that the Boruta deployment has provisioned at least one OAuth client configured to authenticate via JWT client assertions (client_secret_jwt or private_key_jwt token endpoint authentication methods). Deployments that authenticate clients only via client_secret_basic or client_secret_post are not exposed."}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:malach-it:boruta_auth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionEndExcluding": "2.3.7", "versionStartIncluding": "2.3.0", "vulnerable": true}], "negate": false, "operator": "OR"}], "operator": "AND"}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Pascal Knoth"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "remediation developer", "value": "Pascal Knoth"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "analyst", "value": "Jonatan M\u00e4nnchen / EEF"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in malach-it Boruta allows an attacker who has obtained a previously valid JWT client assertion to authenticate as the issuing OAuth client after the assertion has expired.</p><p>Boruta accepts JWT-based client authentication (<tt>client_secret_jwt</tt> and <tt>private_key_jwt</tt> token endpoint authentication methods) but never enforces that the assertion's <tt>exp</tt> claim is in the future. The pre-check helper <tt>'Elixir.Boruta.Oauth.Request.Base':check_expiration/1</tt> in <tt>lib/boruta/oauth/request/base.ex</tt> only verifies that an <tt>exp</tt> claim is present (it pattern-matches on the existence of the key and returns success), and the Joken token configuration used for signature verification, <tt>'Elixir.Boruta.Oauth.Authorization.Client.Token':token_config/0</tt> in <tt>lib/boruta/oauth/authorization/client.ex</tt>, returns an empty map, so Joken's default <tt>exp</tt> claim validator is not engaged either. Any attacker who obtains a validly-signed client assertion (for example through logs, reverse proxies, browser tooling, or other observability surfaces) can replay it indefinitely to authenticate as the client and obtain access tokens with that client's privileges.</p><p>This issue affects boruta: from 2.3.0 before 2.3.7.</p>"}], "value": "Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in malach-it Boruta allows an attacker who has obtained a previously valid JWT client assertion to authenticate as the issuing OAuth client after the assertion has expired.\n\nBoruta accepts JWT-based client authentication (client_secret_jwt and private_key_jwt token endpoint authentication methods) but never enforces that the assertion's exp claim is in the future. The pre-check helper Boruta.Oauth.Request.Base.check_expiration/1 in lib/boruta/oauth/request/base.ex only verifies that an exp claim is present (it pattern-matches on the existence of the key and returns success), and the Joken token configuration used for signature verification, Boruta.Oauth.Authorization.Client.Token.token_config/0 in lib/boruta/oauth/authorization/client.ex, returns an empty map, so Joken's default exp claim validator is not engaged either. 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