Bug 2270311 (CVE-2023-50966)

Summary:	CVE-2023-50966 erlang-jose: Denial-of-service due to high CPU consumption
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Marco Benatto 2024-03-19 16:00:04 UTC

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.

https://github.com/P3ngu1nW/CVE_Request/blob/main/erlang-jose.md
https://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose
https://hexdocs.pm/jose/JOSE.html

Comment 1 Marco Benatto 2024-03-19 16:00:20 UTC

Created erlang-jose tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2270312]