CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-29370

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2025-12-17 Modified 2026-10-27 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-12-17
Last modified
2026-10-27
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-409

Description

In python-jose 3.3.0 (specifically jwe.decrypt), a vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the server, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.

Affected configurations

• python-jose project python-jose 3.3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness

References