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RHEL 9 : python-jwcrypto (RHSA-2024:2559)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194826

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-jwcrypto.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2559 advisory.

 The python-jwcrypto package provides Python implementations of the JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), and JSON Web Token (JWT) JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) standards.

 Security Fix(es):

 * python-jwcrypto: malicious JWE token can cause denial of service (CVE-2024-28102)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL python-jwcrypto package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2559.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9077d59f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2559

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268758

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194826

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2559.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 12/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jwcrypto, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-jwcrypto, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28102

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:2559