01 Record
CVE-2020-28042
ServiceStack before 5.9.2 mishandles JWT signature verification unless an application has a custom ValidateToken function that establishes a valid minimum length for a signature.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
ServiceStack before 5.9.2 mishandles JWT signature verification unless an application has a custom ValidateToken function that establishes a valid minimum length for a signature.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-11-01 04:50Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 16:33Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-11-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347Improper Verification of Cryptographic SignatureBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- bf5e76c8409f0e659c108666a3e46c1230c987ec6d2ea0f9be401dee39a2ee52
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- forums.servicestack.nethttps://forums.servicestack.net/t/servicestack-v5-9-2-released/8850
- github.comhttps://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/540d4060e877a03ae95343c1a8560a26768585ee
- www.shielder.ithttps://www.shielder.it/blog/2020/11/re-discovering-a-jwt-authentication-bypass-in-servicestack/
- www.shielder.ithttps://www.shielder.it/advisories/servicestack-jwt-signature-verification-bypass/