Resource exhaustion in python-jose - CVE-2024-33664
Published: June 3, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110138
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-33664
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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. A remote attacker can send a specialy crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with a high compression ratio to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
python-jose
IBM Fusion HCI
IBM Fusion HCI
How to mitigate CVE-2024-33664
Install updates from vendor's website.
python-jose - update to 3.4.0
IBM Fusion HCI - update to 2.10.0
IBM Fusion HCI - update to 2.10.0