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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2022-31013 EUVD-2022-52716

Authentication bypass in Vartalap chat-server

Published May 31, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Chat Server is the chat server for Vartalap, an open-source messaging application. Versions 2.3.2 until 2.6.0 suffer from a bug in validating the access token, resulting in authentication bypass. The function `this.authProvider.verifyAccessKey` is an async function, as the code is not using `await` to wait for the verification result. Every time the function responds back with success, along with an unhandled exception if the token is invalid. A patch is available in version 2.6.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ramank775 chat-server >= 2.3.2, < 2.6.0 —

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