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high 7.5

CVE-2023-50967 json

latchset jose through version 11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.

published 2024-03-20 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-55695

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

latchset jose through version 11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.

Patch / fix

  • jose Debian 12 11-2+deb12u1
  • jose Debian 14, Debian 13 13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-50967

  • jose RHEL 9 14-1.el9
  • libjose RHEL 9 14-1.el9
  • jose RHEL 8 10-2.el8_10.3
  • libjose RHEL 8 10-2.el8_10.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:9181RHSA-2024:5294

  • jose AlmaLinux 9 14-1.el9
  • libjose AlmaLinux 9 14-1.el9
  • jose AlmaLinux 8 10-2.el8_10.3
  • libjose AlmaLinux 8 10-2.el8_10.3

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:9181ALSA-2024:5294

  • jose Rocky Linux 8 10-2.el8_10.3
  • jose Rocky Linux 9 14-1.el9

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:5294RLSA-2024:9181

  • jose Azure Linux 3.0 14-3

azure linux advisories AZL-45135

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-50967 updated cvss 7.5

jose: Denial of service due to uncontrolled CPU consumption

  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/multicluster-engine-console-mce-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless jose
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jose, libjose
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) libjose-devel 14-1.el9, jose-debuginfo 14-1.el9, jose-debugsource 14-1.el9, libjose-debuginfo 14-1.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:9181
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) jose 10-2.el8_10.3, libjose 10-2.el8_10.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5294
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) jose 14-1.el9, libjose 14-1.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:9181
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 jose, libjose Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-rhel8-operator, rhods/odh-dashboard-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel8, devspaces/dashboard-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/P3ngu1nW/CVE_Request/blob/main/latch-jose.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • latchset jose

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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