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joserfc CVE-2026-48990

| EUVDEUVD-2026-37805 MEDIUM
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
2026-06-17 GitHub_M GHSA-wphv-vfrh-23q5
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY
5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
vuln.today AI
5.3 MEDIUM

Network-reachable token submission requires no auth; availability impact is limited resource exhaustion, not crash; zero confidentiality or integrity impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
5.3 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Patch available
Jun 26, 2026 - 22:02 EUVD
Source Code Evidence Fetched
Jun 17, 2026 - 22:19 vuln.today
Analysis Generated
Jun 17, 2026 - 22:19 vuln.today

DescriptionCVE.org

joserfc is a Python library that provides an implementation of several JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) standards. In versions 1.3.4 through 1.6.5, joserfc accepts oversized RFC7797 b64=false JWS payloads without applying JWSRegistry.max_payload_length, which can lead to resource exhaustion. The normal JWS compact and flattened JSON paths reject payloads above the configured payload-size limit with ExceededSizeError. The RFC7797 unencoded payload paths do not make the same check. A valid b64=false compact or flattened JSON JWS can therefore deserialize successfully with a payload larger than JWSRegistry.max_payload_length. Applications that accept lower-trust JWS values and rely on joserfc to reject oversized token content during verification have a moderate availability risk. This issue has been fixed in version 1.6.7.

AnalysisAI

Resource exhaustion in joserfc (versions 1.3.4-1.6.5) is possible because the RFC7797 unencoded-payload (b64=false) JWS code path skips the configured JWSRegistry.max_payload_length check, while the standard compact and flattened JSON paths correctly raise ExceededSizeError. Remotely submitted, cryptographically valid b64=false JWS tokens with arbitrarily large payloads are deserialized without size enforcement, consuming memory or CPU on the verifying server. …

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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata

Access
Send crafted b64=false JWS token to application endpoint
Delivery
Token passes to joserfc RFC7797 deserialization path
Exploit
max_payload_length check absent - oversized payload accepted
Execution
Server allocates unbounded memory for payload
Persist
Repeat requests exhaust available resources
Impact
Service availability degraded

Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Exploitation requires that the target application accepts JWS tokens bearing the RFC7797 'b64=false' critical header parameter from untrusted or lower-trust callers, and that it relies on joserfc's JWSRegistry.max_payload_length enforcement to bound payload size rather than applying an independent size check before token deserialization. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment The CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium) with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L correctly characterizes this as a remotely reachable, low-complexity denial-of-service issue limited to availability impact. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
Exploit Scenario An attacker targeting an application that accepts externally supplied JWS tokens - such as a token-validated API endpoint - crafts a syntactically valid JWS with the RFC7797 b64=false header and a multi-megabyte unencoded payload, then submits it repeatedly or with maximum size. Because joserfc's RFC7797 deserialization path omits the max_payload_length check, the server allocates memory proportional to the payload on each verification call, leading to elevated memory consumption or CPU saturation. …
Remediation Vendor-released patch: version 1.6.7, available at https://github.com/authlib/joserfc/releases/tag/1.6.7. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
openSUSE Tumbleweed Fixed

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