Resource exhaustion in go-jose - CVE-2024-28180
Published: March 14, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU87538
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-2024-28180
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
go-jose
go-jose
Software vendor:
go-jose
go-jose
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 when decompressing JWE with Decrypt or DecryptMulti. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.
External links
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6g
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/0dd4dd541c665fb292d664f77604ba694726f298
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/add6a284ea0f844fd6628cba637be5451fe4b28a
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/f4c051a0653d78199a053892f7619ebf96339502