In jose4j before 0.9.5, 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.
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Description In jose4j before 0.9.5, 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-17T15:56:28.657Z

Reserved: 2024-03-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-29371

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-17T16:16:04.567

Modified: 2025-12-17T16:16:04.567

Link: CVE-2024-29371

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