vulnerability

Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2023-52428: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 11, 2024
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

In Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT before 9.37.2, an attacker can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large JWE p2c header value (aka iteration count) for the PasswordBasedDecrypter (PBKDF2) component.. A vulnerability was found in the Nimbus Jose JWT package. By crafting a JWE with an excessively large p2c value, an attacker can trigger significant resource consumption during decryption, potentially leading to application slowdown or unavailability.

Solution

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