CVE-2024-28122CWE-400

JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message

Medium · published March 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

JWX is Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies. This vulnerability allows an attacker with a trusted public key to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. This issue has been patched in versions 1.2.29 and 2.0.21.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00570 · 46.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2024-03-09T00:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 MAR 00:45Z
    JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message
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