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High · 7.4 CVE-2026-107724 EUVD-2026-95312GHSA-g3jj-5cmm-3hxx

fast-jwt treats raw public JWK JSON as an HMAC secret, enabling HS256 token forgery

Published Oct 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. In 6.2.4, fast-jwt can classify raw serialized public JWK or JWKS JSON as an HMAC secret because src/crypto.js performDetectPublicKeyAlgorithms treats non-PEM strings as symmetric key material. If HS256 is explicitly allowed or inferred, an attacker who knows the exact serialized public-key bytes can use those bytes as an HMAC key and create a token containing arbitrary claims that createVerifier accepts. Serialization ordering or whitespace differences can prevent exploitation, and applications using supported PEM keys with an asymmetric-only algorithm allowlist are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 6.3.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nearform fast-jwt >= 6.2.4, < 6.3.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm fast-jwt >= 6.2.4, < 6.3.0 6.3.0 GHSA-g3jj-5cmm-3hxx

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