Critical

laravel-auth0 SDK Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 06.06.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Overview The laravel-auth0 SDK contains a critical vulnerability due to insecure deserialization of cookie data. If exploited, since SDKs process cookie content without prior authentication, a threat actor could send a specially crafted cookie containing malicious serialized data.

Am I Affected? You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following preconditions:

  1. Applications using laravel-auth0 SDK, versions between 7.0.0-BETA1 to 7.2.1.
  2. Laravel-auth0 SDK uses the Auth0-PHP SDK with version 8.0.0-BETA3 to 8.3.0.

Fix Upgrade Auth0/laravel-auth0 to the latest version (v7.17.0).

Acknowledgement Okta would like to thank Andreas Forsblom for discovering this vulnerability.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package auth0/login >= 7.0.0-BETA1, < 7.2.2 7.2.2

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1395, CWE-502
Platform
Composer
Package
auth0/login
Disclosed
06.06.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-c42h-56wx-h85q - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: auth0/login

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
5
First → latest
05.2025 04.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 2
  • High 1
  • Medium 1
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2025: 4
  2. 2026: 1
  1. High · 8.2 ghsa-fmg6-246m-9g2v >= 7.0.0, < 7.21.0 7.21.0
  2. Medium · 6.8 ghsa-7hh9-gp72-wh7h >= 7.0.0, < 7.20.0 7.20.0
  3. Low · 3.3 ghsa-hjfh-5jmm-xr24 >= 4.0.0, < 7.19.0 7.19.0
  4. laravel-auth0 SDK Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability this entry
    Critical ghsa-c42h-56wx-h85q >= 7.0.0-BETA1, < 7.2.2 7.2.2

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