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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-28176: jose: resource exhaustion

Name: Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-28176: jose: resource exhaustion
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2024-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-400, Red Hat OpenShift, 2024, 28176, jose, linuxrpm-upgrade-podman, linuxrpm-upgrade-skopeo, Severity 6

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Mar 9, 2024

Added

Jun 28, 2024

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

jose is JavaScript module for JSON Object Signing and Encryption, providing support for JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), and more. A vulnerability has
been identified in the JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption interfaces, specifically related to the support for decompressing plaintext after its decryption. Under certain conditions it is possible to have the user's environment consume unreasonable amount of CPU time or memory during JWE Decryption operations. This issue has been patched in versions 2.0.7 and 4.15.5.

Solutions

linuxrpm-upgrade-podmanlinuxrpm-upgrade-skopeo

References

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