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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-119283 json

joserfc: Unbounded JWE General JSON `recipients` Array Leads to CPU Exhaustion (DoS) via Repeated RSA Private-Key Decryption

published 2026-10-29 10 d ago modified 2026-10-30 9 d ago also GHSA-jpxq-7h8p-2q76 , EUVD-2026-113392

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

joserfc is a Python library that provides an implementation of several JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) standards. Prior to 1.7.5, joserfc.jwe.decrypt_json() accepts a JWE General JSON Serialization recipients array without a count limit and calls decrypt_cek() for every entry. An unauthenticated attacker who can submit a JWE to an endpoint using an RSA key-management algorithm can choose the number of private-key decryption operations performed by one request. The verify_all_recipients option does not reduce this work because the affected loop processes every recipient before consulting that setting, allowing repeated requests to exhaust service CPU without affecting confidentiality or integrity. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.5.

Patch / fix

  • pypi joserfc 1.7.5
  • joserfc Debian 14 1.7.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119283

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-2026-119283 updated cvss 7.5

joserfc: joserfc: Denial of Service via unbounded recipient processing during JWE decryption

  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9 Red Hat Lightspeed Core lightspeed-core/lightspeed-stack-rhel9 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 mta/mta-solution-server-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-agentic-sandbox-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-chatbot-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-chatbot-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux command line assistant rhel-cla/rhel-knowledge-bridge-rhel10 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/ocp-virt-validation-checkup-rhel9 Red Hat Satellite 6 satellite/foreman-mcp-server-rhel9
    affected: no fix available

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
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/authlib/joserfc/security/advisories/GHSA-jpxq-7h8p-2q76 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi joserfc
<1.7.5
1.7.5

Affected products

  • authlib joserfc

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.