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Mojo::JWT versions before 1.02 for Perl verify HMAC signatures with a non-constant-time string comparison.
The decode() method compares the supplied signature to the recomputed HMAC with Perl's eq operator, which stops at the first differing byte, so the comparison time varies with the number of matching leading bytes.
A caller that decodes attacker supplied tokens leaks the expected signature through this timing variation, which can be aggregated over many requests to recover the signature and forge a token.
Mojolicious versions from 4.59 before 9.48 for Perl expose a stable representation of the session CSRF token to a BREACH compression oracle.
csrftoken generates and caches one token per session and returns the same value on every call, and csrffield places that value in a hidden csrftoken input. When a response carrying the token also echoes attacker-controlled input and is gzip-compressed, the chosen values and the resulting compressed lengths form a BREACH oracle.
An attacker able to query it can recover the token and pass csrfprotect validation.
Mojo::JSON versions before 9.47 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded recursion in the pure-Perl decoder.
The pure-Perl decode path (decodevalue dispatching to decodearray and decodeobject) recurses with no depth limit, so a small deeply nested JSON document can consume excessive memory.
This path is the default when Cpanel::JSON::XS is not installed or MOJONOJSONXS=1 is set; the Cpanel::JSON::XS fast path is not affected.
Any caller that decodes an untrusted JSON body, for example Mojo::Message::json reached through $c->req->json, can exhaust process memory and cause denial of service.
Mojolicious versions from 7.28 through 9.45 for Perl will generate weak HMAC session cookie secrets via "mojo generate app" by default.
When creating a default app skeleton with the "mojo generate app" tool, a weak secret is written to the application's configuration file using the insecure rand() function, and used for authenticating and protecting the integrity of the application's sessions. This may allow an attacker to brute force the application's session keys.
Release 9.46 fixes the issue by providing high quality randomness, even in absence of CryptX.
Users should be aware that the update does not replace previously generated weak secrets. A secret generated with the previous version MUST be replaced to ensure the updated version is using a strong secret.
The Mojolicious module before 7.66 for Perl may leak cookies in certain situations related to multiple similar cookies for the same domain. This affects Mojo::UserAgent::CookieJar.
The Mojolicious module before 8.65 for Perl is vulnerable to securecompare timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. Only versions after 1.74 are affected.
Mojolicious versions from 0.999922 for Perl uses a hard coded string, or the application's class name, as an HMAC session cookie secret by default.
These predictable default secrets can be exploited by an attacker to forge session cookies. An attacker who knows or guesses the secret could compute valid HMAC signatures for the session cookie, allowing them to tamper with or hijack another user’s session.
Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha.
That version uses the built-in rand() function for generating the captcha text as well as image noise, which is insecure.
Mojolicious::Plugin::CSRF 1.03 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating CSRF tokens.
That version of the module generates tokens as an MD5 of the process id, the current time, and a single call to the built-in rand() function.
The Mojolicious module before 9.11 for Perl has a bug in format detection that can potentially be exploited for denial of service.
Unspecified vulnerability in the MojoX::Dispatcher::Static implementation in Mojolicious before 0.991250 has unknown impact and attack vectors.
Mojolicious before 0.999927 does not properly implement HMAC-MD5 checksums, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
Commands.pm in Mojolicious before 0.999928 does not properly perform CGI environment detection, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the linkto helper in Mojolicious before 1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
A directory traversal flaw was found in Mojolicious [1]. Because Mojolicious did not unescape paths before processing them, a user could use it to view arbitrary files using '%2f' rather than '/' (for example: %2f..%2f). This has been corrected in upstream version 1.17 [2].
[1] https://github.com/kraih/mojo/issues/114 [2] https://github.com/kraih/mojo/commit/b09854988c5b5b6a2ba53cc8661c4b2677da3818
A directory traversal flaw was found in Mojolicious [1]. Because Mojolicious did not unescape paths before processing them, a user could use it to view arbitrary files using '%2f' rather than '/' (for example: %2f..%2f). This has been corrected in upstream version 1.17 [2].
[1] https://github.com/kraih/mojo/issues/114 [2] https://github.com/kraih/mojo/commit/b09854988c5b5b6a2ba53cc8661c4b2677da3818