CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-29371
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-27
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1259
Description
In jose4j before 0.9.6, an attacker can 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
• jose4j project jose4j (< 0.9.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1259 Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment weakness
References
- https://bitbucket.org/b_c/jose4j/issues/220/vuln-zip-bomb-attack Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mitigation
- https://bitbucket.org/b_c/jose4j/issues/220/vuln-zip-bomb-attack Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mitigation