CVE-2023-51775

Aliases:GHSA-6qvw-249j-h44cDEBIAN-CVE-2023-51775CGA-5c4f-r8hv-r6j3CGA-6mvv-2g46-5j3cCGA-cgw9-5f9w-v56jCGA-hxgh-jvpv-6mf5CGA-mmc8-cgg5-x52mCGA-qqr4-7jx2-q7vh
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 25 Dec 2023, 00:00
Last modified:03 Nov 2025, 21:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
36/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.87% LOW
1% probability +0.44%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

25 Dec 2023, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Nov 2025, 21:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The jose4j component before 0.9.4 for Java allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.87%• Percentile: 57%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Systems

  • chainguard•confluent-common-docker

    < 7.6.9-r0

  • chainguard•confluent-kafka

    < 8.2.0.367-r0

  • chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.5

    < 3.5.0-r4

  • wolfi•confluent-common-docker

    < 7.6.9-r0

  • wolfi•confluent-kafka

    < 8.2.0.367-r0

  • debian•libjose4j-java

    < 0.9.6-1 | < 0.9.6-1

  • jose4j_project•jose4j

    < 0.9.4

  • org.bitbucket.b_c•jose4j

    < 0.9.4

References (6)