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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2025-63811

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in dvsekhvalnov jose2go versions through 1.7.0 allowing an attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio.

  • 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