What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5429

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

jose-php before 2.2.1 does not use constant-time operations for HMAC comparison, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a timing attack, related to JWE.php and JWS.php.

Affected products

• Jose-Php Project Jose-Php: through 2.2.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92743
• https://github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/1cce55e27adf0274193eb1cd74b927a398a3df4b#diff-2a982d82ef0f673fd0ba2beba0e18420R138
• https://github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/f03b986b4439e20b0fd635109b48afe96cf0099b#diff-37b0d289d6375ba4a7740401950ccdd6R287
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92743
• https://github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/1cce55e27adf0274193eb1cd74b927a398a3df4b#diff-2a982d82ef0f673fd0ba2beba0e18420R138
• https://github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/f03b986b4439e20b0fd635109b48afe96cf0099b#diff-37b0d289d6375ba4a7740401950ccdd6R287

Get alerted when CVE-2016-5429 or the next vulnerability affects your stack