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Security checkFebruary 01, 2023

Improper Authentication in react-adal

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Description

This affects versions of react-adal < 0.5.1. It is possible for a specially crafted JWT token and request URL can cause the nonce, session and refresh values to be incorrectly validated, causing the application to treat an attacker-generated JWT token as authentic.

Recommendation

Update the react-adal package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 0.5.1
  • Patched version(s): 0.5.1

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