🛡️ CVE-2024-28176
🟡 CVSS 4.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
4.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-03-09
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-12-05

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora 38 40
jose
jose-node-cjs-runtime
jose-node-esm-runtime

References

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