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erlang-jose vulnerable to denial of service via large p2c value

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 19, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 10, 2024

Package

erlang jose (Erlang)

Affected versions

< 1.11.7

Patched versions

1.11.7

Description

erlang-jose (aka JOSE for Erlang and Elixir) through 1.11.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value in a JOSE header.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 19, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 19, 2024
Reviewed Apr 8, 2024
Last updated Apr 10, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-50966

GHSA ID

GHSA-9mg4-v392-8j68

Source code

Credits

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