| Name | CVE-2023-6681 |
| Description | A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack and possible password brute-force and dictionary attacks to be more resource-intensive. This issue can result in a large amount of computational consumption, causing a denial of service attack. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| python-jwcrypto (PTS) | bullseye | 0.8.0-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 0.8.0-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.1.0-1+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1.5.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| python-jwcrypto | source | (unstable) | 1.5.4-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - python-jwcrypto <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - python-jwcrypto <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260843
https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/commit/d2655d370586cb830e49acfb450f87598da60be8 (v1.5.1)