CVE-2025-26620: Duende.AccessTokenManagement Duende.AccessTokenManagement Race Condition When Concurrently Vulnerability
MODERATECVE-2025-26620 is a MODERATE duende.accesstokenmanagement race condition when concurrently vulnerability (CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition) affecting Duende.AccessTokenManagement libraries in the NuGet ecosystem. The issue involves duende.accesstokenmanagement race condition when concurrently retrieving customized client credentials access tokens. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 3.2.0.
CVE-2025-26620 at a Glance
How to Fix CVE-2025-26620
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Duende.AccessTokenManagement dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.
Upgrade Duende.AccessTokenManagement to 3.2.0
Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
inspect dependencies for Duende.AccessTokenManagement
How to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your application is affected by CVE-2025-26620, inspect your project dependencies for Duende.AccessTokenManagement:
inspect dependencies for Duende.AccessTokenManagement
Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Duende.AccessTokenManagement in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 3.2.0), your application is affected.
Note: Verify declared build manifests and deployed runtime container environments.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition, where the product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. In Duende.AccessTokenManagement, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.
Source Advisory Statement
CVE-2025-26620 Affected Duende.AccessTokenManagement Versions
1 component(s)| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Duende.AccessTokenManagement
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NuGet |
< 3.2.0
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3.2.0
|
References
Frequently Asked Questions
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Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
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"schema_version" : "1.4.0",
"id" : "GHSA-qxj7-2x7w-3mpp",
"modified" : "2025-02-19T17:47:19Z",
"published" : "2025-02-19T17:47:19Z",
"aliases" : [ "CVE-2025-26620" ],
"summary" : "Duende.AccessTokenManagement race condition when concurrently retrieving customized Client Credentials Access Tokens",
"details" : "### Summary\nDuende.AccessTokenManagement contains a race condition when requesting access tokens using the client credentials flow. Concurrent requests to obtain an access token using differing protocol parameters can return access tokens obtained with the wrong scope, resource indicator, or other protocol parameters. Such usage is somewhat atypical, and only a small percentage of users are likely to be affected.\n\n### Details\nDuende.AccessTokenManagement can request access tokens using the client credentials flow in several ways. In basic usage, the client credentials flow is configured once and the parameters do not vary. In more advanced situations, requests with varying protocol parameters may be made by calling specific overloads of these methods:\n\n- `HttpContext.GetClientAccessTokenAsync()`\n- `IClientCredentialsTokenManagementService.GetAccessTokenAsync()`\n\nThere are overloads of both of these methods that accept a `TokenRequestParameters` object that customizes token request parameters. However, concurrent requests with varying `TokenRequestParameters` will result in the same token for all concurrent calls.\n\n\n### Upgrading\nMost users can simply update the NuGet package to the latest version. Customizations of the `IClientCredentialsTokenCache` that derive from the default implementation (`DistributedClientCredentialsTokenCache`) will require a small code change, as its constructor was changed to add a dependency on the `ITokenRequestSynchronization` service. The synchronization service will need to be injected into the derived class and passed to the base constructor.\n\n### Impact\nThe impact of this vulnerability depends on how Duende.AccessTokenManagement is used and on the security architecture of the solution. Most users will not be vulnerable to this issue. More advanced users may run into this issue by calling the methods specified above with customized token request parameters. The impact of obtaining an access token with different than intended protocol parameters will vary depending on application logic, security architecture, and the authorization policy of the resource servers.\n\nThank you to **Michael Dimoudis** of **PageUp** for finding this issue and responsibly disclosing it!",
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