CVE-2026-75759

Encrypted ID token or JARM response accepted without a nested signature in erlef oidcc

State
Published
Severity
7.6 High
Published
Aug 30, 2026
Updated
Aug 31, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2026

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Description

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in erlef oidcc allows an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate an arbitrary user via an encrypted ID token or JARM response carrying no nested signature. OpenID Connect Core 1.0 section 2 requires that an encrypted ID token be signed then encrypted, with the result being a Nested JWT, and JARM processing rule 5 requires the client to check the signature unconditionally. oidcc instead accepted a JWE wrapping unsigned claims as fully validated, so anyone holding the relying party's public encryption key could mint a token with an arbitrary sub, iss, and aud without possessing the provider's signing key.

In oidcc_jwt_util:verify_decrypted_token/4, a decrypted payload that is not a signed JWS fell back to parsing the plaintext claims and returning them with no verifying key. oidcc_token:int_validate_jwt/4 then matched on the JOSE structure type rather than on whether a signature had been verified, and returned success. The JARM path in oidcc_token:validate_jarm/3 is reachable through the browser front channel. UserInfo responses are not affected, because OpenID Connect Core 1.0 section 5.3.2 permits them to be encrypted without also being signed.

This issue affects oidcc: from 3.2.0-beta.1 before 3.9.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.6 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Affected Products

ProductVersions
oidccerlef
  • 3.2.0-beta.1 to before 3.9.0Affected
oidccerlef
  • 37a1361f704889816db2873f72d744d63ec39568 to before 5f62fbccdae8526ff62653b8901657a6c1400fd9Affected

References

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