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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-6681: Moderate: python-jwcrypto security update (ALSA-2024-9281)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 12, 2024
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack and possible password brute-force and dictionary attacks to be more resource-intensive. This issue can result in a large amount of computational consumption, causing a denial of service attack.

Solution

alma-upgrade-python3-jwcrypto
Title
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