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CVE-2026-120459

HIGH CVSS: 7.4 Published: 2026-11-02 Modified: 2026-11-02

Description

python-jose through 3.5.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge JWTs because HMACKey and CryptographyHMACKey accept zero-length HMAC secrets. When an application's HS256/HS384/HS512 verification key resolves to empty, such as an oct JWK with empty k, attackers can forge tokens with arbitrary claims that jwt.decode accepts.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-347

References