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SCA: security update for jwcrypto (GHSA-j857-7rvv-vj97)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416229

Description

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

 - JWCrypto implements JWK, JWS, and JWE specifications using python-cryptography. Prior to version 1.5.6, an
 attacker can cause a denial of service attack by passing in a malicious JWE Token with a high compression
 ratio. When the server processes this token, it will consume a lot of memory and processing time. Version
 1.5.6 fixes this vulnerability by limiting the maximum token length. (CVE-2024-28102)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j857-7rvv-vj97

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416229

Version: Revision 1.10

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: 3.3

Percentile: 51.25

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28102

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28102

cwe: CWE-770