Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in Apache APISIX.
The attacker can completely bypass authentication capitalising on certain configurations of jwt-auth plugin. This issue affects Apache APISIX: from v2.2 through v3.16.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version v3.17.0, which fixes the issue.
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