x-oauth2-jws up to 0.26.x on Go resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in x-oauth2-jws up to 0.26.x on Go. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-22868. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in x-oauth2-jws up to 0.26.x on Go. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

An attacker can pass a malicious malformed token which causes unexpected memory to be consumed during parsing.

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-22868 since 01/08/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232491 (CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: azcopy / blobfuse2 / cert-manager / coredns (CVE-2025-22868)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.27.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (232491) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0512). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Fedora Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Red Hat OpenShift

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• x-oauth2-jws

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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