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CVE-2023-6681 — A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto

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 de

CVSS
5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.03% (top 92.00%)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
2024-02-12T14:04:45.113Z
Last modified
2026-02-26T20:34:50.814Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 88100020240417004735.143e9e98
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 88100020240416171943.823393f5
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:1.5.6-2.el9
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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