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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-52428

High
7.5/10

Summary

In Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT versions 4.0-rc1 through 9.37.1, an attacker can cause a Denial of Service (through Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) via a large JWE p2c header value (aka iteration count) for the 'PasswordBasedDecrypter' (PBKDF2) component.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published