What is CVE-2024-28102?

CVE-2024-28102 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Latchset Jwcrypto, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2024-03-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-28102?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Latchset Jwcrypto

CVE-2024-28102

JWCrypto implements JWK, JWS, and JWE specifications using python-cryptography. Prior to version 1.5.6, an attacker can cause a denial of service attack by passing in a malicious JWE Token with a high compression ratio. When the server pro…

EPSS: 0.004 (59.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Latchset Jwcrypto — versions < 1.5.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/security/advisories/GHSA-j857-7rvv-vj97 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/commit/90477a3b6e73da69740e00b8161f53fea19b831f (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-28102?: CVE-2024-28102 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Latchset Jwcrypto, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2024-03-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-28102?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.