Denial of service in JOSE for Go



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-28180
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 go-jose
Universal components / Libraries / Programming Languages & Components

Vendor go-jose

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU87538

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [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-2024-28180

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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when decompressing JWE with Decrypt or DecryptMulti. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

go-jose: before 2.6.3, 3.0.3, 4.0.1, 2.6.3, 2.6.3

CPE2.3 External links

https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6g
https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/0dd4dd541c665fb292d664f77604ba694726f298
https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/add6a284ea0f844fd6628cba637be5451fe4b28a
https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/f4c051a0653d78199a053892f7619ebf96339502


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.



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