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Status published
Medium
CVE-2024-28122
JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message
Vulnerability Description
JWX is Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies. This vulnerability allows an attacker with a trusted public key to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. This issue has been patched in versions 1.2.29 and 2.0.21.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
Affected Vendor
lestrrat-go
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jwx
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.21, >= 1.2.0, < 1.2.29
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 9th, 2024
Last Modified:
April 16th, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H