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CVE-2017-18239

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18239 is a critical vulnerability affecting authentikat-jwt (com.jason-goodwin/authentikat-jwt) versions 0.4.5 and earlier, where a time-sensitive equality check in the JWT signature validation allows attackers to guess the signature bit by bit. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:authentikat-jwt_project:authentikat-jwt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0203 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.jason-goodwin:authentikat-jwt_2.12Fixed in: 0.4.6

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-3rhm-67j6-42jqcritical

Exposure of Sensitive information in authentikat-jwt

Nov 9, 2018

References

github.com / jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/commit/2d2fa0d40ac8f2f7aa7e9b070fa1a25eee082cb0
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/issues/12
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt/pull/36
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory