Resource exhaustion in jwt - CVE-2025-30204
Published: March 24, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU105983
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS: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/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-30204
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: golang-jwt
Affected software:
jwt
jwt
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the parse.ParseUnverified function when parsing authorization header. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP response to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-30204
Install updates from vendor's website.