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🛡️ CVE-2023-6681 — enterprise-linux

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

DoS with algorithms that use PBKDF2 due to unbounded PBES2 Count value

Impact

Denial of Service,

Applications that allow the use of the PBKDF2 algorithm.

Patches

A [patch](https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/commit/d2655d370586cb830e49acfb450f87598da60be8) is available that sets the maximum number of default rounds.

Workarounds

Applications that do not need to use PBKDF2 should simply specify the algorithms use and exclude it from the list.

Applications that need to use the algorithm should upgrade to the new version that allows to set a maximum rounds number.

Acknowledgement

The issues was reported by Jingcheng Yang and Jianjun Chen from Sichuan University

and Zhongguancun Lab

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-6681 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2023-6681 is recorded against 6 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • enterprise-linux-for-arm-64
  • enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems
  • enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian
  • fedora
  • jwcrypto (fixed in 1.5.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 February 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

CVE-2023-6681 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux — —
enterprise-linux-for-arm-64 — —
enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems — —
enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian — —
fedora — —
jwcrypto — 1.5.1

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