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CVE-2023-50966

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

erlang-jose (aka JOSE for Erlang and Elixir) through 1.11.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large p2c (aka PBES2 Count) value in a JOSE header.

Affected products

• Potatosalad Erlang-Jose: before 1.11.6 — fixed in 1.11.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Potatosalad Erlang-Jose 1.11.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/P3ngu1nW/CVE_Request/blob/main/erlang-jose.md
• https://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose
• https://hexdocs.pm/jose/JOSE.html
• https://github.com/P3ngu1nW/CVE_Request/blob/main/erlang-jose.md
• https://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose
• https://hexdocs.pm/jose/JOSE.html

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