CVE-2024-41948 LOW

CVE-2024-41948: biscuit-java vulnerable to public key confusion in third party block

Vendor Biscuit-Auth
Product biscuit-java
Weakness CWE-1259
Published August 1, 2024
Last update August 7, 2024

CVSS base score

3.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

Description

biscuit-java is the java implementation of Biscuit, an authentication and authorization token for microservices architectures. Third-party blocks can be generated without transferring the whole token to the third-party authority. Instead, a ThirdPartyBlock request can be sent, providing only the necessary info to generate a third-party block and to sign it, which includes the public key of the previous block (used in the signature) and the public keys part of the token symbol table (for public key interning in datalog expressions). A third-part block request forged by a malicious user can trick the third-party authority into generating datalog trusting the wrong keypair. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.0.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

August 1, 2024 CVE published
August 7, 2024 Record updated