CVE-2026-80179

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 62/100
Published: 2026-08-28 Modified: 2026-11-11 First seen: 2026-11-06 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

A flaw was found in jwcrypto. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token containing numerous period delimiters. This malformed token can force the JWE.deserialize() function to allocate excessive memory, leading to a MemoryError. This issue results in a denial of service (DoS) for services that process untrusted JWE values.

Bug Bounty Relevance

62 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.9 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.30%
Raw Score 0.003030
Percentile 23.3%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00303
2026-11-12
0.00303
2026-11-10
0.00300
2026-11-09
0.00300
2026-11-08
0.00300
2026-11-07
0.00300
2026-11-06
0.00300
2026-11-05
0.00407

Intelligence Sources

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