Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

OpenLiberty/open-liberty

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161

Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

26.3%

Coverage

Highlights

Auth Bypass: 79 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.

dev/com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.security: most-fixed (6 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.

75 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Auth Bypass: The OIDC backchannel logout validator was highly prone to authorization bypasses due to incomplete or missing validation checks on mandatory JWT claims (iss, sid, sub, and jti), which allowed unvalidated or replayed logout requests to go unvetted.

Auth Bypass: LTPA token validation historically suffered from bypasses due to delayed expiration checks during token instantiation or failure to match dual-expiration fields, allowing stale or unverified tokens to be processed.

Auth Bypass: The Jakarta OIDC authentication mechanism suffered from bypass issues due to unvalidated refresh token flows, improper authentication parameter handling, and converting authentication status failures to unsafe states that bypassed WebContainer security boundaries.