CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-28176

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2024-03-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-03-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

jose is JavaScript module for JSON Object Signing and Encryption, providing support for JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), and more. A vulnerability has been identified in the JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption interfaces, specifically related to the support for decompressing plaintext after its decryption. Under certain conditions it is possible to have the user's environment consume unreasonable amount of CPU time or memory during JWE Decryption operations. This issue has been patched in versions 2.0.7 and 4.15.5.

Affected configurations

• jose project jose (< 2.0.7) • jose project jose (>= 3.0.0 < 4.15.5) • fedoraproject fedora (>= 38 <= 40)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References