GO-2024-2632

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    GO-2024-2632

    Published: 20 May 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message in github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx

    Details: An attacker with a trusted public key may cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the recipient, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.

    References: https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/security/advisories/GHSA-hj3v-m684-v259, https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/commit/d01027d74c7376d66037a10f4f64af9af26a7e34, https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/commit/d43f2ceb7f0c13714dfe8854d6439766e86faa76, https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v1.2.29, https://github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/releases/tag/v2.0.21

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.29

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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