GHSA-4xw9-cx39-r355: json-web-token (CVE-2023-48238)

json-web-token library is vulnerable to a JWT algorithm confusion attack

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0031 · 24th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 17 Nov 2023, 22:48 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
json-web-token	npm	<4.0.0	4.0.0

Identifiers

GHSA-4xw9-cx39-r355 · CVE-2023-48238

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-20 · CWE-345

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0031, the 24th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 13:33 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 13:33 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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