CVE-2019-1258

High

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Azure Active Directory Authentication Library On-Behalf-Of flow, in the way the library caches tokens. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to perform actions in context of another user. The authenticated attacker can exploit this vulneraiblity by accessing a service configured for On-Behalf-Of flow that assigns incorrect tokens. This security update addresses the vulnerability by removing fallback cache look-up for On-Behalf-Of scenarios.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductMicrosoft Active Directory Authentication Library
PublishedAug 14, 2019
First seenAug 14, 2019

How to fix

Update
  • microsoft active_directory_authentication_library5.2.0 or later
  • microsoft.identitymodel.clients.activedirectory5.2.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
microsoft active_directory_authentication_library5.0.5 ≤ v < 5.2.0, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.35.2.0
microsoft nuget5.2.0—
microsoft.identitymodel.clients.activedirectoryNuGet5.0.0 ≤ v < 5.2.05.2.0

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