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CVE-2024-33664

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33664

Severity

5.3

Medium

CVSS V3

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Description

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.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33664
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cjwg-qfpm-7377
  • https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/jwt-bomb-in-python-jose-cve-2024-33664
  • https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/issues/344
  • https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/pull/345

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