CVE-2024-29371

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 75/100
Published: 2025-12-17 Modified: 2026-10-27 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In jose4j before 0.9.6, an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. When this token is processed by the server, it results in significant memory allocation and processing time during decompression.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
jose4j_project jose4j < 0.9.5

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

75 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.26%
Raw Score 0.002570
Percentile 17.3%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00257
2026-10-28
0.00257

Intelligence Sources

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