Improper Authorization in passport-cognito

Description

All versions of passport-cognito are vulnerable to Improper Authorization. The package fails to properly scope the variables containing authorization information, such as access token, refresh token and ID token. This causes a race condition where simultaneous authenticated users may receive authorization tokens for a different user.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• >= 0.0.0

References

• GHSA-v6c5-hwqg-3x5q
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2019-19723
• CWE-285
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

passport-cognito