mediumVulnerability

GHSA-6vvh-pxr4-25r7

### Impact The experimental `Chacha20Poly1305` key-encryption algorithm generates the 16-byte Poly1305 authentication tag during `encryptKey()` but **discards it**: the tag is never written to the header and therefore never reaches the wire. On the receiving side, `decryptKey()` calls `openssl_decrypt('chacha20-poly1305', ...)` **without the tag argument**, which makes OpenSSL skip authentication entirely. As a result the AEAD construction is silently degraded to unauthenticated ChaCha20: a tampered encrypted CEK is accepted, and because ChaCha20 is a stream cipher, a single-byte change in the ciphertext propagates as a single-byte change in the recovered CEK with no integrity check (CWE-353 / CWE-347). An attacker on the token path can manipulate the wrapped key without detection. ### Affected configurations Applications that register `Jose\Experimental\KeyEncryption\Chacha20Poly1305` (package `web-token/jwt-experimental`) as a JWE `alg`. ### Patches `encryptKey()` now publishes the Poly1305 tag as the base64url `tag` header parameter (and asserts it is 16 bytes). `decryptKey()` requires the `tag` header, validates its length, and passes it to `openssl_decrypt()` so the tag is actually verified, in line with RFC 7539 / RFC 8439. Tampering now results in a decryption failure. > Note: this changes the wire format of tokens produced with this experimental algorithm (a `tag` header is now emitted and required). ### Workarounds Do not use the experimental `Chacha20Poly1305` key-encryption algorithm for untrusted input until upgraded. ### References - RFC 7539 / RFC 8439 (ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD) - CWE-353: Missing Support for Integrity Check ## Résolution Un correctif a été préparé sur une branche dédiée basée sur `3.4.x`, avec des tests anti-régression dédiés (fork privé temporaire de cette advisory, PR #1). **ChaCha20-Poly1305** — le tag d'authentification Poly1305 est désormais publié dans le header au chiffrement et vérifié au déchiffrement (RFC 7539),

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-6vvh-pxr4-25r7
severity
medium
summary
PHP JWT Framework: Chacha20Poly1305 key-encryption algorithm discards the Poly1305 authentication tag, performing no authentication on decryption
cve_id
GHSA-6vvh-pxr4-25r7
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-06-18T21:08:15Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vvh-pxr4-25r7
ghsa_updated
2026-06-18T21:08:15Z

Related Entities (7)

VULNERABLE_TO (2)

[Software]composer/web-token/jwt-experimental
[Software]composer/web-token/jwt-library

AFFECTS (2)

[Software]composer/web-token/jwt-experimental
[Software]composer/web-token/jwt-library

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

[Weakness]Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
[Weakness]Missing Support for Integrity Check

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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