Medium

Weak JSON Web Token in yapi-vendor

  • Disclosed: 26.03.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Weak JSON Web Token (JWT) signing secret generation in YMFE YApi through 1.9.2 allows recreation of other users' JWT tokens. This occurs because Math.random in Node.js is used as a source of randomness in jwt signing. Math.random does not provide cryptographically secure random numbers. This has been patched in version 1.9.3.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package yapi-vendor < 1.9.3 1.9.3

References

CVSS score 5.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-330
Platform
npm
Package
yapi-vendor
Disclosed
26.03.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-2h3h-vw8r-82rp - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: yapi-vendor

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
4
First → latest
11.2018 02.2026
Without a fix
2
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 3

Disclosures per year

  1. 2018: 1
  2. 2019: 0
  3. 2020: 0
  4. 2021: 1
  5. 2022: 0
  6. 2023: 1
  7. 2024: 0
  8. 2025: 0
  9. 2026: 1
  1. Medium · 5.4 CVE-2021-36686 <= 1.9.1 no fix
  2. Weak JSON Web Token in yapi-vendor this entry
    Medium · 5.1 CVE-2021-27884 < 1.9.3 1.9.3
  3. Medium · 5.4 CVE-2018-17574 < 1.3.23 1.3.23

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