Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1259

Allowed

Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment

Abstraction: Base · Status: Incomplete

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The System-On-A-Chip (SoC) implements a Security Token mechanism to differentiate what actions are allowed or disallowed when a transaction originates from an entity. However, the Security Tokens are improperly protected.

12 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2022-23551 (GCVE-0-2022-23551)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-21 19:50 – Updated: 2025-04-15 18:10
VLAI
Title
AAD Pod Identity obtaining token with backslash
Summary
aad-pod-identity assigns Azure Active Directory identities to Kubernetes applications and has now been deprecated as of 24 October 2022. The NMI component in AAD Pod Identity intercepts and validates token requests based on regex. In this case, a token request made with backslash in the request (example: `/metadata/identity\oauth2\token/`) would bypass the NMI validation and be sent to IMDS allowing a pod in the cluster to access identities that it shouldn't have access to. This issue has been fixed and has been included in AAD Pod Identity release version 1.8.13. If using the AKS pod-managed identities add-on, no action is required. The clusters should now be running the version 1.8.13 release.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-15 18:10 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1259 - Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Azure aad-pod-identity Affected: < 1.8.13
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CVE-2022-23541 (GCVE-0-2022-23541)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 17:52 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:32
VLAI
Title
jsonwebtoken's insecure implementation of key retrieval function could lead to Forgeable Public/Private Tokens from RSA to HMAC
Summary
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Severity
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-03 17:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
  • CWE-1259 - Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
auth0 node-jsonwebtoken Affected: <= 8.5.1
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Mitigation
Architecture and Design Implementation
  • Security Token assignment review checks for design inconsistency and common weaknesses.
  • Security-Token definition and programming flow is tested in both pre-silicon and post-silicon testing.
CAPEC-121: Exploit Non-Production Interfaces

An adversary exploits a sample, demonstration, test, or debug interface that is unintentionally enabled on a production system, with the goal of gleaning information or leveraging functionality that would otherwise be unavailable.

CAPEC-681: Exploitation of Improperly Controlled Hardware Security Identifiers

An adversary takes advantage of missing or incorrectly configured security identifiers (e.g., tokens), which are used for access control within a System-on-Chip (SoC), to read/write data or execute a given action.

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