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CVE-2024-33664 (GCVE-0-2024-33664)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-25 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-05 15:28
VLAI
Summary
python-jose through 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) during a decode via a crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with a high compression ratio, aka a "JWT bomb." This is similar to CVE-2024-21319.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-07 13:47 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
python-jose_project python-jose Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.3.0 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:python-jose_project:python-jose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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