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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2024-33664)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-33664)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0149-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-33664: Fixed a denial of service via decoding of a JSON Web Encryption token with a high     compression ratio (boo#1223422)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
421404	SCA: security update for python-jose (GHSA-cjwg-qfpm-7377)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
421404	SCA: security update for python-jose (GHSA-cjwg-qfpm-7377)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
227623	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-33664	Nessus	Misc.	medium
200080	openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-python-jose (openSUSE-SU-2024:0149-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2024-33664

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