CVE-2026-33996CWE-476

LibJWT has NULL/bounds validation in JWK octet and RSA PSS parsing

Medium · published March 27, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

LibJWT is a C JSON Web Token Library. Starting in version 3.0.0 and prior to version 3.3.0, the JWK parsing for RSA-PSS did not protect against a NULL value when expecting to parse JSON string values. A specially crafted JWK file could exploit this behavior by using integers in places where the code expected a string. This was fixed in v3.3.0. A workaround is available. Users importing keys through a JWK file should not do so from untrusted sources. Use the `jwk2key` tool to check for validity of a JWK file. Likewise, if possible, do not use JWK files with RSA-PSS keys.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
EPSS
0.00173 · 6.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-03-27T22:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 22:21Z
    LibJWT has NULL/bounds validation in JWK octet and RSA PSS parsing
    cvelistv5