What is CVE-2023-50966?

CVE-2023-50966 is a medium-severity vulnerability in N/a, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-03-19.

How severe is CVE-2023-50966?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-50966 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in N/a

CVE-2023-50966

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.009 (55.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

NaInSec/CVE-LIST

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-50966?: CVE-2023-50966 is a medium-severity vulnerability in N/a, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-03-19.
How severe is CVE-2023-50966?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-50966 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.