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CVE-2024-29371

high

In jose4j before 0.9.6, an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally…

Vendor / product: Jose4j Project — jose4j

In jose4j before 0.9.6, an attacker can 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 server, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.

CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-12-17 16:16
Modified: 2026-10-27 18:10
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 11:29 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

jose4j_project / jose4j <0.9.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://bitbucket.org/b_c/jose4j/issues/220/vuln-zip-bomb-attack
Patch / mitigation: https://bitbucket.org/b_c/jose4j/issues/220/vuln-zip-bomb-attack

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 11:29 UTC · record ↗

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