CVE-2022-23541

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En concreto, los tokens firmados con una clave p\u00fablica asim\u00e9trica podr\u00edan verificarse con un algoritmo sim\u00e9trico HS256. Esto puede conducir a una validaci\u00f3n exitosa de tokens falsificados. Si su aplicaci\u00f3n admite el uso de claves sim\u00e9tricas y asim\u00e9tricas en la implementaci\u00f3n de jwt.verify() con la misma funci\u00f3n de recuperaci\u00f3n de claves. 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