Denial of service in JOSE

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU69615

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36083

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the way application handles untrusted JWE tokens A remote attacker can trigger pass the PBKDF2-based JWE key with an extremely high PBES2 Count value and consume significant amount of CPU time, resulting in a denial of service conditions.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

jose: 1.0.0 - 4.9.1

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.9.2:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:nodejs:*:*

External links

http://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-jv3g-j58f-9mq9
http://github.com/panva/jose/commit/03d6d013bf6e070e85adfe5731f526978e3e8e4d
http://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v4.9.2

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.