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GHSA-c6gw-w398-hv78

DoS in go-jose Parsing

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-27144

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 < 4.0.5 4.0.5
Go github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 < 3.0.4 3.0.4
Go github.com/go-jose/go-jose < 3.0.4 3.0.4

Details

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### Impact 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. ### Patches Version 4.0.5 fixes this issue ### Workarounds Applications could pre-validate payloads passed to go-jose do not contain an excessive number of '.' characters. ### References This is the same sort of issue as in the golang.org/x/oauth2/jws package as CVE-2025-22868 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/71490.

References

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