GO-2023-2334

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    GO-2023-2334

    Published: 21 Nov 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Denial of service via decryption of malicious PBES2 JWE objects in github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3

    Details: The go-jose package is subject to a "billion hashes attack" causing denial-of-service when decrypting JWE inputs. This occurs when an attacker can provide a PBES2 encrypted JWE blob with a very large p2c value that, when decrypted, produces a denial-of-service.

    References: https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/65351c27657d58960c2e6c9fbb2b00f818e50568, https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/issues/64

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.0.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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