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CVE-2023-52428

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52428

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

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Description

In Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT before 9.37.2, an attacker can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large JWE p2c header value (aka iteration count) for the PasswordBasedDecrypter (PBKDF2) component.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52428
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gvpg-vgmx-xg6w
  • https://connect2id.com/products/nimbus-jose-jwt
  • https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/issues/526/
  • https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/commits/3b3b77e

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