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CVE-2019-17195

nimbus-jose-jwt: Uncaught exceptions while parsing a JWT

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 15, 2019

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT prior to version 7.9. While processing JSON web tokens (JWT), nimbus-jose-jwt can throw various uncaught exceptions resulting in an application crash, information disclosure, or authentication bypass. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and system availability.

Statement

In Red Hat Virtualization 4.2, nimbus-jose-jwt was bundled in the rhvm-dependencies package. In Red Hat Virtualization 4.3, nimbus-jose-jwt was made available as a separate package and no longer bundled in rhvm-dependencies. Thus, rhvm-dependencies only contained this vulnerability in the 4.2 EUS stream, the 4.3 version of rhvm-dependencies is not affected.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CWE-248 · Uncaught Exception