CVE-2024-28122

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

CVSS 6.8 MEDIUMEPSS 0.6%CWE-400

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.8EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

09 Mar 2024Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

lestrrat-go · jwx

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References

https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v1.2.29 https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v2.0.21 https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/security/advisories/GHSA-hj3v-m684-v259