DEBIAN-CVE-2025-27144

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CVE-2025-27144
Published: 24 Feb 2025, 23:15
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.7 HIGH
4.0 (osv_debian)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 Feb 2025, 23:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:30
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. In versions on the 4.x branch prior to version 4.0.5, when parsing compact JWS or JWE input, Go JOSE could use excessive memory. The code used strings.Split(token, ".") to split JWT tokens, which is vulnerable to excessive memory consumption when processing maliciously crafted tokens with a large number of `.` characters. An attacker could exploit this by sending numerous malformed tokens, leading to memory exhaustion and a Denial of Service. Version 4.0.5 fixes this issue. As a workaround, applications could pre-validate that payloads passed to Go JOSE do not contain an excessive number of `.` characters.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Systems

  • debian•golang-github-go-jose-go-jose

    < 4.0.5-1 | < 4.0.5-1

References (1)