CVE-2024-28122
MEDIUM6.8EPSS 0.15%JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message in github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx
Published: 3/8/2024Modified: 2/4/2026
Description
An attacker with a trusted public key may cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the recipient, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.
Affected packages (4)
- Go/github.com/lestrrat-go/jwxfrom 0, < 1.2.29
- Go/github.com/lestrrat-go/jwxfrom 0, < 1.2.29
- Go/github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2from 0, < 2.0.21
- Go/github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2from 0, < 2.0.21
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28122
- PATCHhttps://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx
- WEBhttps://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/commit/d01027d74c7376d66037a10f4f64af9af26a7e34
- WEBhttps://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/commit/d43f2ceb7f0c13714dfe8854d6439766e86faa76
- WEBhttps://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v1.2.29
- WEBhttps://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v2.0.21
- WEBhttps://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/security/advisories/GHSA-hj3v-m684-v259