CVE-2023-50966 (GCVE-0-2023-50966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 22:23
VLAI
Summary
erlang-jose (aka JOSE for Erlang and Elixir) through 1.11.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value in a JOSE header.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-20 14:28 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
potatosalad erlang-jose Affected: 0 , < 1.11.6 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:potatosalad:erlang-jose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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