Security context

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

brianloveswords/python-jws

              master @ 9228dcc
            

Fixes

CVEs

HIGH

Peak severity

100.0%

Coverage

Highlights

Algorithm Confusion: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

jwt/__init__.py: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

2 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.

Algorithm Confusion: Header 'alg' was not validated, allowing attackers to choose unsupported or none algorithms and forge tokens.

Signature Verification Bypass: HMAC used hexdigest instead of digest, producing incorrect signatures that could be bypassed or mismatched.