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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2023-51775 json

jose4j denial of service via specifically crafted JWE

published 2023-12-25 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-6qvw-249j-h44c , EUVD-2024-0539

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The jose4j component before 0.9.4 for Java allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j 0.9.4
  • jose4j_project jose4j 0.9.4
  • libjose4j-java Debian 14, Debian 13 0.9.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-51775

  • eap7-jsoup jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el9eap
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eap
  • eap7-xalan-j2 jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el9eap
  • eap7-hal-console jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-ironjacamar jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-jbossws-cxf jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 5.4.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-undertow-jastow jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 2.0.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-wildfly-modules jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eap

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:8077RHSA-2024:8075RHSA-2024:8076

  • release-notes-susemanager Manager Server 4.3 4.3.12-150400.3.108.2
  • release-notes-susemanager-proxy Manager Proxy 4.3 4.3.12-150400.3.82.3
  • smdba Manager Server Module 4.3 1.7.13-0.150400.4.12.4
  • jose4j Manager Server Module 4.3 0.5.1-150400.3.9.4
  • cobbler Manager Server Module 4.3 3.3.3-150400.5.42.5
  • spacecmd Manager Server Module 4.3, Manager Proxy Module 4.3 4.3.27-150400.3.36.5
  • mgr-daemon Manager Proxy Module 4.3 4.3.9-150400.3.15.5
  • susemanager Manager Server Module 4.3 4.3.35-150400.3.48.6

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1532-1SUSE-SU-2024:1507-1

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-2023-51775 updated cvss 7.5

jose4j: denial of service via specially crafted JWE

  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Build of Keycloak jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 jose4j Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka jose4j
    affected: workaround, no fix available
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  • Red Hat HawtIO 4.0.0 for Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3550
  • Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2.6.1 GA
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4873
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-jsoup 1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el7eap, eap7-wildfly 7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap, eap7-jboss-cert-helper 1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-hal-console 3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-ironjacamar 1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, +21 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8075
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-jsoup 1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el8eap, eap7-wildfly 7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap, eap7-jboss-cert-helper 1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-hal-console 3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-ironjacamar 1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, +22 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8076
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-jsoup 1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el9eap, eap7-xalan-j2 2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el9eap, eap7-wildfly 7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eap, eap7-jboss-cert-helper 1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap7-hal-console 3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap7-ironjacamar 1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, +22 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8077
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8080
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4392
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4386
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.33 openshift-serverless-1/logic-rhel8-operator 1.33.0-3, openshift-serverless-1/logic-operator-bundle 1.33.0-5, openshift-serverless-1/logic-swf-builder-rhel8 1.33.0-5, openshift-serverless-1/logic-swf-devmode-rhel8 1.33.0-5, openshift-serverless-1/logic-data-index-ephemeral-rhel8 1.33.0-5, openshift-serverless-1/logic-data-index-postgresql-rhel8 1.33.0-5, +3 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4057
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 jose4j Red Hat build of Debezium 2 jose4j Red Hat Data Grid 8 jose4j Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jose4j Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins
    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

0.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bitbucket.org https://bitbucket.org/b_c/jose4j/issues/212 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j
<0.9.4
0.9.4

Affected products

  • jose4j_project jose4j

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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