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JSON Web Token Validation Bypass in Auth0 Authentication API

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3 points by mfincham 6 years ago · 1 comment

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rvz 6 years ago

> The Authentication API prevented the use of alg: none with a case sensitive filter. This means that simply capitalising any letter e.g. alg: nonE, allowed tokens to be forged.

The option to have 'alg: none' should never be used as it is still the biggest footgun in the JOSE specification. I'm not sure why on earth you need a case-sensitive filter on this, but even giving the user a choice of ciphers to use is a recipe for disaster. Thus JWT is still a cryptographically weak standard.

PASETO [0] or Branca [1] are cryptographically stronger alternatives to use over JWT here.

[0] https://paseto.io [1] https://branca.io

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