vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-28176: jose: resource exhaustion

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 9, 2024
Added
Jun 28, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solutions

linuxrpm-upgrade-podmanlinuxrpm-upgrade-skopeo

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