Resource Exhaustion Affecting jose package, versions <0:14-1.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-JOSE-6474678
  • published21 Mar 2024
  • disclosed20 Mar 2024

Introduced: 20 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-50967  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 jose to version 0:14-1.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9181.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jose package and not the jose package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

latchset jose through version 11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1