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SecurityOctober 25, 2026, 05:02

Two npm flaws: fast-jwt key confusion and decompress symlink traversal

fast-jwt 6.2.0–6.3.0 carries CVE-2026-107722 (CVSS 9.8): an RSA public key with leading noise is treated as an HMAC secret, allowing JWT forgery; it is fixed in 6.3.0. The decompress package has CVE-2026-101894 (CVSS 9.1), a symlink path traversal; the original 4.2.1 is unmaintained, while fork @xhmikosr/decompress is fixed in 10.2.2 and 11.1.4.

Two npm flaws: fast-jwt key confusion and decompress symlink traversal
#Fast-jwt#Decompress#Npm#Node.js
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