CVE-2023-6681

MEDIUM

JWCrypto < 1.5.1 - Denial of Service via Excessive Resource Consumption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3267
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9281
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6681
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260843

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (9)
fedoraproject/fedora 38
fedoraproject/fedora 39
latchset/jwcrypto < 1.5.1
pypi/jwcrypto 0 - 1.5.1PyPI
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_for_arm_64 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian 8.0
Published Feb 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026