Privilege escalation in Biscuit-Auth Biscuit-Rust

CVE-2024-41949

biscuit-rust is the Rust implementation of Biscuit, an authentication and authorization token for microservices architectures. Third-party blocks can be generated without transferring the whole token to the third-party authority. Instead, a ThirdPartyBlock request can be sent, providing only the necessary info to generate a third-party block and to sign it, which includes the public key of the previous block (used in the signature) and the public keys part of the token symbol table (for public key interning in datalog expressions). A third-part block request forged by a malicious user can trick the third-party authority into generating datalog trusting the wrong keypair.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.002 (14.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.0 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-41949?
CVE-2024-41949 is a low-severity vulnerability in Biscuit-Auth Biscuit-Rust, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 3.0/10. Published 2024-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2024-41949?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-41949 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.