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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2026-74240 json

Quay: jwt claim validation bypasses in quay federated robot and sso authentication

published 2026-08-14 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-20 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-58817

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay's JWT (JSON Web Token) validation for federated robot accounts and single sign-on (SSO) authentication. Multiple issues related to audience verification and the enforcement of `azp` and `sub` claims were identified. These flaws could allow an attacker with a validly-signed token from the same identity provider to bypass configured security restrictions. This bypass could lead to unauthorized access by circumventing intended audience, subject, or authorized-client limitations.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-74240 updated cvss 5.4

quay: JWT claim validation bypasses in Quay federated robot and SSO authentication

  • Red Hat OpenShift Update Service openshift-update-service/openshift-update-service-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8, quay/quay-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Update Service
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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