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CVE-2024-28122

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CVE-2024-28122

Published: Mar 9, 2024

Modified: Apr 16, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.8

MEDIUM

Description

JWX is Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies. This vulnerability allows an attacker with a trusted public key to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. This issue has been patched in versions 1.2.29 and 2.0.21.

VendorProductVersions

lestrrat-go

jwx

affected
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.21
affected
>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.29

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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