Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-28180

Medium

Published: 09 March 2024

Published
09 March 2024
Modified
03 December 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0486 89.8th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-28180 is a medium-severity Data Amplification (CWE-409) vulnerability in Go-Jose Project Go-Jose. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 10.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti.…

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Those functions now return an error if the decompressed data would exceed 250kB or 10x the compressed size (whichever is larger). This vulnerability has been patched in versions 4.0.1, 3.0.3 and 2.6.3.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability allows attackers to cause endpoint denial of service via CPU and memory exhaustion by supplying maliciously crafted compressed JWE payloads that expand dramatically during decryption.

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0048: External Harms

Affected Assets

go-jose project
go-jose
2.0.0 — 2.6.3 · 3.0.0 — 3.0.3 · 4.0.0 — 4.0.1
fedoraproject
fedora
38 — 40

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-409

Limits effects of data amplification from compressed or malicious inputs.

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