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TI-2024-28337 Aliases CVE-2024-42350

Public key confusion in third party block in Biscuit

Priority LOW 15CWE-668Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Biscuit is an authorization token with decentralized verification, offline attenuation and strong security policy enforcement based on a logic language. 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: 1. the public key of the previous block (used in the signature), 2. 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. Tokens with third-party blocks containing `trusted` annotations generated through a third party block request. This has been addressed in version 4 of the specification. Users are advised to update their implementations to conform. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00291 21st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed biscuit (biscuit-auth): 4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
biscuit-authbiscuitbefore 44Patch availableCNA
  • biscuit Vendorbiscuit-auth Affected before 4 Fixed in 4 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA biscuit (biscuit-auth) Fixed in 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-42350

References

  • TI-2022-13098 Signature forgery in Biscuit CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-27971 biscuit-rust vulnerable to public key confusion in third party block CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
  • TI-2024-27970 biscuit-java vulnerable to public key confusion in third party block CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0

Sources

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