Resource exhaustion in jwx - CVE-2024-28122

 

Resource exhaustion in jwx - CVE-2024-28122

Published: October 17, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU98780
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28122
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: lestrrat-go
Affected software:
jwx

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote privileged user with trusted public key can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio


How to mitigate CVE-2024-28122

Install updates from vendor's website.

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