Improper Authentication in react-adal

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

References

• GHSA-7mpx-vg3c-cmr4
• snyk.io
• CVE-2020-7787
• CWE-287
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

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• Regular expression denial of service in react-native - CVE-2020-1920

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Tags:

npm

react-adal