CVE-2023-50966 Affecting erlang-jose package, versions <1.11.10-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.89% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ERLANGJOSE-11741172
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed19 Mar 2024

Introduced: 19 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-50966  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 erlang-jose to version 1.11.10-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang-jose package and not the erlang-jose package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

erlang-jose (aka JOSE for Erlang and Elixir) through 1.11.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value in a JOSE header.