jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext
CVE-2024-28176

4.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Panva

Status
Jose
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-28176?

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.

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Affected Version(s)

jose >= 3.0.0, <= 4.15.4 <= 3.0.0, 4.15.4

jose < 2.0.7 < 2.0.7

References

https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-hh...
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https://github.com/panva/jose/commit/02a65794f7873cdaf12e...
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https://github.com/panva/jose/commit/1b91d88d2f8233f3477a...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

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