# CVE-2026-55459: Goobi viewer: OpenID JWT audience not enforced by the verifier

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109063, GHSA-7VRV-QH6G-GFX7
- Severity: CVSS 7.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 26.05
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-23

## Summary

Goobi viewer, a web application for displaying digitised material in browsers, is affected through its OpenID login handling. Attackers could potentially log in as another user by using an authentication token issued for a different relying party in setups where one identity provider serves multiple applications.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- intranda goobi-viewer-core: from 25.01, fixed in 26.05

## Description

The Goobi viewer is a web application that allows digitised material to be displayed in a web browser. From version 25.01 to before version 26.05, AuthenticationEndpoint.verifyOpenIdToken builds its verifier as JWT.require(algorithm).withIssuer(issuer).build() and does not enforce the aud claim during cryptographic validation. The aud check is performed manually afterwards via a single string-equality call, which only handles single-string aud values. In a multi-RP IdP setup, a token whose single-string aud matches the viewer's client ID but was issued for a different relying party passes the check and authenticates the attacker as the token's sub. This issue has been patched in version 26.05.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on intranda goobi-viewer-core, upgrade to a fixed version (26.05) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/security/advisories/GHSA-7vrv-qh6g-gfx7
- https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/commit/73e2ccb63c36392d46f8d21644592efd6cf87933
- https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/releases/tag/v26.05

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