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A Vulnerability in pac4j-jwt (JwtAuthenticator) Could Allow for Authentication Bypass

ID: 3dadde2c-86cb-573a-a780-fa1ba40cc846

STIX ID: report--3dadde2c-86cb-573a-a780-fa1ba40cc846

Feed Name: CISecurity.org Advisories

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2026-03-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

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A critical logic flaw in pac4j-jwt's JwtAuthenticator (CVE-2026-29000) fails to validate cryptographic signatures on encrypted JSON Web Tokens (JWE), allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker possessing only the server's public RSA key to forge JWTs and bypass authentication to impersonate any user, including administrators.

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