SCA: security update for github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, gopkg.in/go-jose/go-jose.v2 (GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6g)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413687

Description

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

- Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of
standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and
CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Those functions now return an error if the decompressed
data would exceed 250kB or 10x the compressed size (whichever is larger). This vulnerability has been
patched in versions 4.0.1, 3.0.3 and 2.6.3. (CVE-2024-28180)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413687

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 12/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28180

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28180

cwe: CWE-409