CVE-2026-102268 PyJWT: Asymmetric-PEM detection bypass: whitespace/line-ending-mutated public keys skip the HS/asymmetric confusion guard

PyJWT is a Python implementation of JSON Web Token standards. Prior to 2.14.0, ispemformat in jwt/utils.py is affected because ispemformat does not recognize every PEM representation accepted by the cryptography loader. This occurs when an application mixes HMAC and asymmetric algorithms and...

CVE-2026-102268

The PyJWT library (versions prior to 2.14.0 ) contains a vulnerability in jwt/utils.py where the is_pem_format function fails to recognize certain PEM representations accepted by the cryptography loader. This occurs when applications mixing HMAC and asymmetric algorithms provide mutated public-ke...