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CVE-2024-28176

5.9 mediumEPSS 2.1%

Medium (5.9). EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in jose 2.0.7, 4.15.5.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882qnpmjose>=3.0.0 <4.15.54.15.5
GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882qnpmjose-node-cjs-runtime<4.15.54.15.5
GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882qnpmjose-node-esm-runtime<4.15.54.15.5
GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882qnpmjose<2.0.72.0.7

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