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CVE-2023-51775 (GCVE-0-2023-51775)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:50
VLAI
Summary
The jose4j component before 0.9.4 for Java allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-01 18:51 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
jose4j_project jose4j Affected: 0 , < 0.9.4 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:jose4j_project:jose4j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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