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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-28102: Moderate: python-jwcrypto security update (ALSA-2024-2559)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-28102: Moderate: python-jwcrypto security update (ALSA-2024-2559)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/21/2024
Created
05/08/2024
Added
05/08/2024
Modified
05/08/2024

Description

JWCrypto implements JWK, JWS, and JWE specifications using python-cryptography. Prior to version 1.5.6, an attacker can cause a denial of service attack by passing in a malicious JWE Token with a high compression ratio. When the server processes this token, it will consume a lot of memory and processing time. Version 1.5.6 fixes this vulnerability by limiting the maximum token length.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python3-jwcrypto

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