CVE-2024-29371

jose4j is vulnerable to DoS via compressed JWE content

Description

In jose4j before 0.9.5, an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the server, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.

Patch Available

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Score

Severity

Ecosystem

Java

Publish Date

December 17, 2025

Modified Date

December 18, 2025

Score Vector

Affected Versions