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SCA: security update for github.com/go-jose/go-jose, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 (GHSA-c6gw-w398-hv78)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420983

Description

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

 - Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go,
 including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT)
 standards. In versions on the 4.x branch prior to version 4.0.5, when parsing compact JWS or JWE input, Go
 JOSE could use excessive memory. The code used strings.Split(token, ".") to split JWT tokens, which is
 vulnerable to excessive memory consumption when processing maliciously crafted tokens with a large number
 of `.` characters. An attacker could exploit this by sending numerous malformed tokens, leading to memory
 exhaustion and a Denial of Service. Version 4.0.5 fixes this issue. As a workaround, applications could
 pre-validate that payloads passed to Go JOSE do not contain an excessive number of `.` characters.
 (CVE-2025-27144)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c6gw-w398-hv78

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420983

Version: Revision 1.15

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/25/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27144

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27144