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CVE-2026-9537mediumCWE-208

Mojo::JWT versions before 1.02 for Perl verify HMAC signatures with a non-constant-time string comparison

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 86% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Mojo::JWT versions before 1.02 for Perl verify HMAC signatures with a non-constant-time string comparison. The decode() method compares the supplied signature to the recomputed HMAC with Perl's eq operator, which stops at the first differing byte, so the comparison time varies with the number of matching leading bytes. A caller that decodes attacker supplied tokens leaks the expected signature through this timing variation, which can be aggregated over many requests to recover the signature and forge a token.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
JBERGER · Mojo::JWT