CVE-2024-41949

biscuit-rust vulnerable to public key confusion in third party block

MEDIUM
6.4
CVSS Score
Published: August 1, 2024 at 10:03 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:48 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsBiscuit AuthBiscuit Auth

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Severity
MEDIUM6.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.0.0
Affected range stops below 5.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 5.0.0
Affected range stops below 5.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-269NVD-CWE-noinfo

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