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CVE-2023-22893

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Strapi through 4.5.5 does not verify the access or ID tokens issued during the OAuth flow when the AWS Cognito login provider is used for authentication. A remote attacker could forge an ID token that is signed using the 'None' type algorithm to bypass authentication and impersonate any user that use AWS Cognito for authentication.

Affected products

• strapi: from 3.0.0 before 4.6.0 — fixed in 4.6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: strapi 4.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases
• https://strapi.io/blog/security-disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-cve
• https://www.ghostccamm.com/blog/multi_strapi_vulns/
• https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases
• https://strapi.io/blog/security-disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-cve
• https://www.ghostccamm.com/blog/multi_strapi_vulns/

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