Security Bulletin
Summary
Golang JWT is used by the IBM Storage Protect Server OSSM and Object Agent component. The vulnerabilities in the product component have been addressed.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2024-51744
DESCRIPTION: golang-jwt is a Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens. Unclear documentation of the error behavior in `ParseWithClaims` can lead to situation where users are potentially not checking errors in the way they should be. Especially, if a token is both expired and invalid, the errors returned by `ParseWithClaims` return both error codes. If users only check for the `jwt.ErrTokenExpired ` using `error.Is`, they will ignore the embedded `jwt.ErrTokenSignatureInvalid` and thus potentially accept invalid tokens. A fix has been back-ported with the error handling logic from the `v5` branch to the `v4` branch. In this logic, the `ParseWithClaims` function will immediately return in "dangerous" situations (e.g., an invalid signature), limiting the combined errors only to situations where the signature is valid, but further validation failed (e.g., if the signature is valid, but is expired AND has the wrong audience). This fix is part of the 4.5.1 release. We are aware that this changes the behaviour of an established function and is not 100 % backwards compatible, so updating to 4.5.1 might break your code. In case you cannot update to 4.5.0, please make sure that you are properly checking for all errors ("dangerous" ones first), so that you are not running in the case detailed above.
CWE: CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 3.1
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Storage Protect Server | 8.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by upgrading.
| IBM Storage Protect Server Affected Versions | Fixing Level | Platform | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| 8.1.0.000 - 8.1.26.xxx | 8.1.27 | AIX Linux Windows | Instructions for downloading the update:: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7236970 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
20 Jun 2025: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
25 June 2025
Initial Publish date:
20 June 2025
UID
ibm17237000