SCA: security update for jose, jose-node-cjs-runtime, jose-node-esm-runtime (GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415765

Description

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

- jose is JavaScript module for JSON Object Signing and Encryption, providing support for JSON Web Tokens
(JWT), JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Key Set (JWKS),
and more. A vulnerability has been identified in the JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption interfaces,
specifically related to the support for decompressing plaintext after its decryption. Under certain
conditions it is possible to have the user's environment consume unreasonable amount of CPU time or memory
during JWE Decryption operations. This issue has been patched in versions 2.0.7 and 4.15.5.
(CVE-2024-28176)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhhv-q57g-882q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415765

Version: Revision 1.13

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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-2024-28176

cwe: CWE-400