CVE-2024-28176 jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext
Attackers can cause resource exhaustion via crafted JWE tokens, leading to denial of service in applications using the jose library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-28176?
CVE-2024-28176 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 9 Mar 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28176?
8 open source packages ship an affected version, including jose, jose-node-cjs-runtime and jose-node-esm-runtime. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
jose npm | All versions | 2.0.7 |
jose npm | All versions | 2.0.7 |
jose npm | From 3.0.0 | 4.15.5 |
jose npm | From 3.0.0 | 4.15.5 |
jose-node-cjs-runtime npm | All versions | 4.15.5 |
jose-node-cjs-runtime npm | All versions | 4.15.5 |
2 more packages
jose-node-esm-runtime npm | All versions | 4.15.5 |
jose-node-esm-runtime npm | All versions | 4.15.5 |
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Jose Project Jose.
How do I fix CVE-2024-28176?
Upgrade jose to a fixed version for your release line: 2.0.7 or 4.15.5.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-28176 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-28176 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as CLSA-2026-1792163458, GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28176.