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CVE-2024-41949GHSA-P9W4-585H-G3C7GHSA-47CQ-PC2V-3RMPGHSA-RGQV-MWC3-C78MHSEC-2024-0009

biscuit-rust vulnerable to public key confusion in third party block

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.0.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

biscuit-rust is the Rust implementation of Biscuit, an authentication and authorization token for microservices architectures. Third-party blocks can be generated without transferring the whole token to the third-party authority. Instead, a ThirdPartyBlock request can be sent, providing only the necessary info to generate a third-party block and to sign it, which includes the public key of the previous block (used in the signature) and the public keys part of the token symbol table (for public key interning in datalog expressions). A third-part block request forged by a malicious user can trick the third-party authority into generating datalog trusting the wrong keypair.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • biscuit-auth biscuit-rust

    fixed in 5.0.0

  • biscuit-authcrates.io

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 5.0.0

References 1

GitHub · biscuit-auth/biscuit-rust