In jose4j before 0.9.5, an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the server, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.
History

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Jose4j Project
Jose4j Project jose4j
Vendors & Products Jose4j Project
Jose4j Project jose4j

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-1259
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000

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Description In jose4j before 0.9.5, an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the server, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-17T18:48:36.126Z

Reserved: 2024-03-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-29371

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-17T18:15:31.759Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-17T16:16:04.567

Modified: 2025-12-18T15:07:42.550

Link: CVE-2024-29371

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-19T09:18:10Z