High (7.5) in connect2id nimbus jose\+jwt. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt 9.37.2.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 57% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)