Resource exhaustion in Latchset Jwcrypto
CVE-2023-6681
A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack and possible password brute-force and dictionary attacks to be more resource-intensive. This issue can result in a large amount of computational consumption, causing a denial of service attack.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.009 (57.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Latchset Jwcrypto
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 38, 39
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — versions 8100020240417004735.143e9e98, 8100020240416171943.823393f5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — versions 0:1.5.6-2.el9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 — versions 8.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems — versions 8.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian — versions 8.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3267 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9281 (vendor-advisory)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6681 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-6681?
- CVE-2023-6681 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Latchset Jwcrypto, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-02-12.
- How severe is CVE-2023-6681?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-6681 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.