lestrrat-go jwx up to 1.2.28/2.0.20 resource consumption

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in lestrrat-go jwx up to 1.2.28/2.0.20. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-28122. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in lestrrat-go jwx up to 1.2.28/2.0.20. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

JWX is Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies. This vulnerability allows an attacker with a trusted public key to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. This issue has been patched in versions 1.2.29 and 2.0.21.

The weakness was released 03/09/2024 as GHSA-hj3v-m684-v259. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-28122 since 03/04/2024. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

Upgrading to version 1.2.29 or 2.0.21 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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Vendor

• lestrrat-go

Name

• jwx

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.2.14
• 1.2.15
• 1.2.16
• 1.2.17
• 1.2.18
• 1.2.19
• 1.2.20
• 1.2.21
• 1.2.22
• 1.2.23
• 1.2.24
• 1.2.25
• 1.2.26
• 1.2.27
• 1.2.28
• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.0.11
• 2.0.12
• 2.0.13
• 2.0.14
• 2.0.15
• 2.0.16
• 2.0.17
• 2.0.18
• 2.0.19
• 2.0.20

Website

• Product: https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/

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