CVE-2024-28176
jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmjoseGHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q (opens in a new tab)
- npmjose-node-cjs-runtimeGHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q (opens in a new tab)
- npmjose-node-esm-runtimeGHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/panva/jose/commit/02a65794f7873cdaf12e81e80ad076fcdc4a9314 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/panva/jose/commit/1b91d88d2f8233f3477a5f4579aa5f8057b2ee8b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XJDO5VSIAOGT2WP63AXAAWNRSVJCNCRH/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KXKGNCRU7OTM5AHC7YIYBNOWI742PRMY/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I6MMWFBOXJA6ZCXNVPDFJ4XMK5PVG5RG/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UJO2U5ACZVACNQXJ5EBRFLFW6DP5BROY/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UG5FSEYJ3GP27FZXC5YAAMMEC5XWKJHG/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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