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CVE-2024-28176

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

Published: Mar 9, 2024Updated: Dec 5, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-400
NVD MITRE
4.9CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
2.1%
Top 20.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:HUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

josepanva
Library
OSS Libraries / generic-library
ROSA VirtualizationАО «НТЦ ИТ РОСА»
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
joseСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
jose-node-cjs-runtimeСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
jose-node-esm-runtimeСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
panvaoss-projectOSS Librariesaka panva
ао «нтц ит роса»commercialRUOperating Systems
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
and 7 more affected products View all →

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Impact
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References

https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q
github.com
https://github.com/panva/jose/commit/02a65794f7873cdaf12e81e80ad076fcdc4a9314
github.com
https://github.com/panva/jose/commit/1b91d88d2f8233f3477a5f4579aa5f8057b2ee8b
github.com
and 15 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Mar 9, 2024
Last Updated
Dec 5, 2025

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