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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt package, versions [,9.37.2)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMNIMBUSDS-6247633
  • published 15 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 11 Feb 2024
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 11 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-52428 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt to version 9.37.2 or higher.

Overview

com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt is a library for JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to a large JWE p2c header value (AKA iteration count) for the PasswordBasedDecrypter (PBKDF2) class. An attacker can cause resource consumption by specifying an excessively large iteration count.