jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext

Summary

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.

Timeline

1. Mar 9, 2024, 12:43 AM UTCCVE published
2. Mar 11, 2024, 2:26 PM UTCCISA SSVC assessment

   Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

3. Feb 13, 2025, 5:47 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• panva jose

  From 3.0.0 · through 4.15.4; fixed in 2.0.7

• josenpm

  From 3.0.0 · fixed in 4.15.5

• jose-node-cjs-runtimenpm

  fixed in 4.15.5

• jose-node-esm-runtimenpm

  fixed in 4.15.5

• josenpm

  fixed in 2.0.7

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