CVE-2024-28176

Aliases:GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Analyzed
Published: 09 Mar 2024, 00:43
Last modified:13 Feb 2025, 17:47

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
24/100
CVSS Score
5.9 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.57% LOW
1% probability +0.15%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Mar 2024, 00:43
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
13 Feb 2025, 17:47
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.57%• Percentile: 69%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    ≥ 38, ≤ 40

  • jose_project•jose

    < 2.0.7 | ≥ 3.0.0, < 4.15.5

  • Npm•jose

    ≥ 3.0.0, < 4.15.5 | < 2.0.7

  • Npm•jose-node-cjs-runtime

    < 4.15.5

  • Npm•jose-node-esm-runtime

    < 4.15.5

  • panva•jose

    ≥ 3.0.0, ≤ 4.15.4 | < 2.0.7

References (15)