5.9

CVE-2024-28176: jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-28176CGA-mhcf-j6c6-m7jwCGA-qf7j-rvr5-p7jq
Published 09-03-2024Last modified 13-02-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-28176 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 2.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.9/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.10%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 2
MGASA-2024-0343RHSA-2024:0045RHSA-2024:3826RHSA-2024:3827RHSA-2024:3968RHSA-2024:5294

Timeline

  1. 09-03-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability 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

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.10%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.10% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, administrative account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Npm3 products
  • jose≥ 3.0.0, < 4.15.5 | < 2.0.7
  • jose-node-cjs-runtime< 4.15.5
  • jose-node-esm-runtime< 4.15.5
Chainguard2 products
  • sqlpad< 7.4.1-r2
  • sqlpad-compat< 7.4.1-r2
Wolfi2 products
  • sqlpad< 7.4.1-r2
  • sqlpad-compat< 7.4.1-r2
Fedoraproject1 product
Jose_project1 product
  • jose< 2.0.7 | ≥ 3.0.0, < 4.15.5
Panva1 product
  • jose≥ 3.0.0, ≤ 4.15.4 | < 2.0.7
Ubuntu1 product
  • node-joseAll versions (No fix recorded)

7 vendors · 11 products

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