Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting pyjwt package, versions [,2.11.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYJWT-11356591
  • published20 May 2026
  • disclosed31 Jul 2025
  • creditZupeiNie

Introduced: 31 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-45768  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyjwt to version 2.11.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inadequate Encryption Strength due to the HMAC and RSA key lengths used in the JSON Web Signature (JWS) implementation not meeting recommended security standards.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1