CVE-2023-6681

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.03%

DoS with algorithms that use PBKDF2 due to unbounded PBES2 Count value

Published: 12/28/2023Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack and possible password brute-force and dictionary attacks to be more resource-intensive. This issue can result in a large amount of computational consumption, causing a denial of service attack.

Affected packages (3)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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