SB2022112520 - Denial of service in JOSE
Published: November 25, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022112520
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36083)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.