CVE-2024-33664
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.25%python-jose denial of service via compressed JWE content
Published: 4/26/2024Modified: 5/11/2026
Description
python-jose through 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) during a decode via a crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with a high compression ratio, aka a "JWT bomb." This is similar to CVE-2024-21319.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/python-josefrom 0
- PyPI/python-josefrom 0, < 3.4.0
- PyPI/python-josefrom 0, < 3.4.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33664
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-33664
- PATCHhttps://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose
- WEBhttps://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/issues/344
- WEBhttps://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/pull/345
- WEBhttps://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/releases/tag/3.4.0
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/python-jose/PYSEC-2024-233.yaml
- WEBhttps://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/jwt-bomb-in-python-jose-cve-2024-33664