Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting github.com/go-jose/go-jose package, versions <3.0.4>=4.0.0 <4.0.5
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- published25 Feb 2025
- disclosed24 Feb 2025
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Introduced: 24 Feb 2025
NewCVE-2025-27144 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade github.com/go-jose/go-jose to version 3.0.4, 4.0.5 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the use of strings.Split to split JWT tokens. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion and service disruption by sending numerous malformed tokens with a large number of . characters.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by pre-validating that payloads passed to Go JOSE do not contain an excessive number of . characters.