CVE-2016-7191: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Passport

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 29.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Microsoft Azure Active Directory Passport (aka Passport-Azure-AD) library 1.x before 1.4.6 and 2.x before 2.0.1 for Node.js does not recognize the validateIssuer setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted token.

Affected products

• Microsoft Azure Active Directory Passport: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; …

Published 2016-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.