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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0913

NIXPKGS-2026-0913
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Permalink CVE-2026-32727
8.1 HIGH
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): NONE
updated 1 week ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
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SciTokens: Authorization Bypass via Path Traversal in Scope Validation

SciTokens is a reference library for generating and using SciTokens. Prior to version 1.9.7, the Enforcer is vulnerable to a path traversal attack where an attacker can use dot-dot (..) in the scope claim of a token to escape the intended directory restriction. This occurs because the library normalizes both the authorized path (from the token) and the requested path (from the application) before comparing them using startswith. This issue has been patched in version 1.9.7.

Affected products

scitokens
  • ==< 1.9.7

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.scitokens-cpp

A C++ implementation of the SciTokens library with a C library interface

Package maintainers

Advisory: https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens/security/advisories/GHSA-3x2w-63fp-3qvw
Patch: https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens/commit/2d1cc9e42bc944fe0bbc429b85d166e7156d53f9