CVE-2024-28122

JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message

JWX is Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies. This vulnerability allows an attacker with a trusted public key to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. This issue has been patched in versions 1.2.29 and 2.0.21.

Affected

lestrrat-go · jwx

CVSS v3.1 GITHUB

6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 46th percentile

Published

2024-03-09

Updated

2025-04-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• lestrrat-go/jwx/security/advisories/GHSA-hj3v-m684-v259
• advisories/GHSA-hj3v-m684-v259

Security advisories

• lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v1.2.29

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry