# CVE-2025-22149: JWK Set's HTTP client only overwrites and appends JWK to local cache during refresh

- Also known as: GO-2025-3376, GHSA-675F-RQ2R-JW82
- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.6.0
- Published: 2025-01-09 · Updated: 2025-05-23

## Affected

- MicahParks jwkset: from 0.5.0, fixed in 0.6.0
- github.com/MicahParks/jwkset (Go): from 0.5.0, fixed in 0.6.0

## Description

JWK Set (JSON Web Key Set) is a JWK and JWK Set Go implementation. Prior to 0.6.0, the project's provided HTTP client's local JWK Set cache should do a full replacement when the goroutine refreshes the remote JWK Set. The current behavior is to overwrite or append. This is a security issue for use cases that utilize the provided auto-caching HTTP client and where key removal from a JWK Set is equivalent to revocation. The affected auto-caching HTTP client was added in version v0.5.0 and fixed in v0.6.0. The only workaround would be to remove the provided auto-caching HTTP client and replace it with a custom implementation. This involves setting the HTTPClientStorageOptions.RefreshInterval to zero (or not specifying the value).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MicahParks jwkset, github.com/MicahParks/jwkset, upgrade to a fixed version (0.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/MicahParks/jwkset/security/advisories/GHSA-675f-rq2r-jw82
- https://github.com/MicahParks/jwkset/issues/40
- https://github.com/MicahParks/jwkset/commit/01db49a90f7f20c7fb39a699a2f19a7a5f379ed3

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