CVE-2024-28180: Go JOSE vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-28180 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 33 · Related 131Showing 100 of 148.
Timeline
- 09-03-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 13-02-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Those functions now return an error if the decompressed data would exceed 250kB or 10x the compressed size (whichever is larger). This vulnerability has been patched in versions 4.0.1, 3.0.3 and 2.6.3.
CVSS metrics
8 scores · 8 sources · 1 version- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- NVDNIST4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS trend
Probability
1.96%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
80%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 1.96% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard199 products
- aactl< 0.4.12-r7
- apko< 0.14.0-r3
- argo-workflows< 3.5.5-r2
- argo-workflows-fips< 3.5.5-r2
- bank-vaults< 1.32.0-r2 | < 1.20.4-r8
Alpine1 product
- buildah< 1.35.4-r0
2 vendors · 200 products · Showing 200 of 393
References
43 links- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6gX Refsource CONFIRMARTICLEAdvisoryWEBVendor Advisory
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/0dd4dd541c665fb292d664f77604ba694726f298X Refsource MISCFIXWEBPatch
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/add6a284ea0f844fd6628cba637be5451fe4b28aX Refsource MISCFIXWEBPatch
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/f4c051a0653d78199a053892f7619ebf96339502X Refsource MISCFIXWEBPatch
Show all 43 references
- github.com/go-jose/go-josePACKAGE
- lists.opensuse.org/archives/…Advisory