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CVE-2026-65628EUVD-2026-110307EEF-CVE-2026-65628GHSA-FPJ2-9H59-32PP

Infinite recursion (CPU denial-of-service) in JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2 on mismatched key types

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.11.13
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The JOSE library for Erlang and Elixir, specifically its JWK shared-secret (ECDH) derivation function, is affected. When two keys of mismatched types are passed in, the function can enter an endless loop that never returns, so an attacker supplying a crafted key can consume CPU indefinitely and cause a denial of service in applications that use it without validating peer keys first.

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jose_jwk:shared_secret/2 (exposed in Elixir as JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2) derives an ECDH shared secret from two JWKs. Its first function clause only matches when both JWKs carry the same key type (kty) module, and its fallback clause re-invokes itself as shared_secret(from(YourJWK), from(MyJWK)). Because from/1 returns an already-parsed jose_jwk record unchanged, passing two JWKs whose key types differ (for example an EC key and an RSA key) makes the fallback clause re-enter with identical arguments, producing an unbounded tail-recursive loop that never returns and never crashes. An application that derives a shared secret from an externally supplied peer public key without first checking that the peer key's type and curve match its own key can be driven into this loop by an attacker-controlled JWK, pinning an Erlang scheduler at 100% CPU. Repeated requests exhaust the available schedulers, resulting in a denial of service. This issue affects jose: from 1.5.0 before 1.11.13.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • jose

    From 1.5.0 · fixed in 1.11.13

  • potatosalad/erlang-jose

    From 7b80b9f55b9898e1a6901ce136061b241b021d7c · fixed in 26182a7de63b91550035d3f08741f7d17f1f675a

  • joseHex

    From 1.5.0 · fixed in 1.11.13

References 5

GitHub · potatosalad/erlang-jose

cna.erlef.org

osv.dev