CVE-2023-50966 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2024-03-19

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-9mg4-v392-8j68	erlang-jose vulnerable to denial of service via large p2c value

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0004.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/P3ngu1nW/CVE_Request/blob/main/erlang-jose.md
https://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose
https://hexdocs.pm/jose/JOSE.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50966

History

Wed, 28 May 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50966

Thu, 22 May 2025 02:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50966 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50966

Subscriptions

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:23:44.054Z

Reserved: 2023-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-50966

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:23:44.054Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-03-19T15:15:07.113

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2023-50966

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-03-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-50966 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-400

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