Resource exhaustion in jose - CVE-2022-36083
Published: November 25, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU69615
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36083
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
jose
jose
Software vendor:
Filip Skokan
Filip Skokan
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the way application handles untrusted JWE tokens A remote attacker can trigger pass the PBKDF2-based JWE key with an extremely high PBES2 Count value and consume significant amount of CPU time, resulting in a denial of service conditions.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.