CVE-2026-35041

Description

fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. From 5.0.0 to 6.2.0, a denial-of-service condition exists in fast-jwt when the allowedAud verification option is configured using a regular expression. Because the aud claim is attacker-controlled and the library evaluates it against the supplied RegExp, a crafted JWT can trigger catastrophic backtracking in the JavaScript regex engine, resulting in significant CPU consumption during verification. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.2.1.

References

• https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/commit/b0be0ca161593836a153d5180ca5358ad9b5de94
• https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/pull/595
• https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/releases/tag/v6.2.1
• https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/security/advisories/GHSA-cjw9-ghj4-fwxf
• https://github.com/nearform/fast-jwt/security/advisories/GHSA-cjw9-ghj4-fwxf