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CVE-2024-28176

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-28176 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the jose JavaScript module, affecting its JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption interfaces, including those used in fedoraproject fedora and jose_project jose. This flaw allows an attacker to trigger excessive CPU or memory consumption during JWE decryption, leading to a denial-of-service condition. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9 (MEDIUM) due to its network attack vector, high attack complexity, and high impact on availability, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jose_project:jose:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
>= 3.0.0, < 4.15.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jose_project:jose:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
>= 38, <= 40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0209 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (33)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: jose-node-cjs-runtimeFixed in: 4.15.5
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: jose-node-esm-runtimeFixed in: 4.15.5
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: joseFixed in: 2.0.7
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: joseFixed in: 4.15.5
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10 for RHEL 9Fixed in: rhacm2/console-rhel9:v2.10.1-3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.9 for RHEL 8Fixed in: rhacm2/console-rhel8:v2.9.4-22
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:rhel8-8100020240610105040.afee755d
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: jose-0:10-2.el8_10.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: podman-4:4.9.4-4.el9_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: buildah-2:1.33.7-2.el9_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: jose-0:14-1.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: podman-4:4.9.4-5.1.rhaos4.16.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: skopeo-2:1.14.4-1.rhaos4.16.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder-rhel9:v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.gca2b36a.assembly.stream.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: openshift4/ose-openshift-controller-manager-rhel9:v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.g1432fe0.assembly.stream.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/grafana-rhel8:2.6.0-7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8:2.6.0-21
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel8:2.6.0-7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel8-operator:2.6.0-27
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel8:1.73.10-3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8:1.73.9-2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8-operator:1.73.10-2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8:2.6.0-19
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/ratelimit-rhel8:2.6.0-8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 for RHEL 9Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel9:2.6.0-18
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9Fixed in: odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.16.0-33
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9Fixed in: odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator:v4.16.2-2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHODF-4.17-RHEL-9Fixed in: odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator:v4.17.0-17
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel8:v2.4.5-25
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: multicluster-engine/multicluster-engine-console-mce-rhel8:v2.4.5-25
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 9Fixed in: multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9:v2.5.2-6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 9Fixed in: multicluster-engine/multicluster-engine-console-mce-rhel9:v2.5.2-6
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Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2024-28176Moderate

jose: resource exhaustion

Mar 9, 2024
npmGHSA-hhhv-q57g-882qmedium

jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext

Mar 7, 2024

References

github.com / panva/jose/commit/02a65794f7873cdaf12e81e80ad076fcdc4a9314
Patch
github.com / panva/jose/commit/1b91d88d2f8233f3477a5f4579aa5f8057b2ee8b
Patch
github.com / panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/I6MMWFBOXJA6ZCXNVPDFJ4XMK5PVG5RG
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/KXKGNCRU7OTM5AHC7YIYBNOWI742PRMY
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/UG5FSEYJ3GP27FZXC5YAAMMEC5XWKJHG
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/UJO2U5ACZVACNQXJ5EBRFLFW6DP5BROY
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/XJDO5VSIAOGT2WP63AXAAWNRSVJCNCRH
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory