# CVE-2024-28180: Go JOSE vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

- Also known as: GO-2024-2631, GHSA-C5Q2-7R4C-MV6G
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.1, 3.0.3, 2.6.3
- Published: 2024-03-09 · Updated: 2025-02-13

## Affected

- go-jose: fixed in 4.0.1; fixed in 3.0.3; fixed in 2.6.3
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 (Go): fixed in 4.0.1
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 (Go): fixed in 3.0.3
- gopkg.in/go-jose/go-jose.v2 (Go): fixed in 2.6.3
- gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v2 (Go): all versions
- gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v2 (Go): through 2.6.0

## Description

Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Those functions now return an error if the decompressed data would exceed 250kB or 10x the compressed size (whichever is larger). This vulnerability has been patched in versions 4.0.1, 3.0.3 and 2.6.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on go-jose, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.1, 3.0.3, 2.6.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- 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
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJDO5VSIAOGT2WP63AXAAWNRSVJCNCRH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KXKGNCRU7OTM5AHC7YIYBNOWI742PRMY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6MMWFBOXJA6ZCXNVPDFJ4XMK5PVG5RG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UJO2U5ACZVACNQXJ5EBRFLFW6DP5BROY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UG5FSEYJ3GP27FZXC5YAAMMEC5XWKJHG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IJ6LAJJ2FTA2JVVOACCV5RZTOIZLXUNJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JNPMXL36YGS3GQEVI3Q5HKHJ7YAAQXL5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MSOMHDKRPU3A2JEMRODT2IREDFBLVPGS/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GD2GSBQTBLYADASUBHHZV2CZPTSLIPQJ/

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