CVE-2024-28176CWE-400

jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext

Medium · published March 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.9
EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02102 · 81.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2024-03-09T00:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 MAR 00:43Z
    jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext
    cvelistv5