Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
networknt/light-java
master @ c722de5
8
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
75.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 3 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
ExternalServiceHandler: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
5 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: Authorization bypasses occurred due to loose substring matching (using String.contains) when validating JWT claims against authorized roles or groups, allowing partially matching malicious inputs to gain unauthorized access.
Auth Bypass: A downstream authorization bypass was caused by the failure to propagate user role claims from verified JWTs into the auditInfo context, which downstream portal handlers rely upon for enforcement.
Cryptographic Issues: A configuration mismatch in the ExternalServiceHandler disabled TLS hostname verification by default, exposing outbound HTTP client traffic to potential Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks.