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cjose: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Affected packages
cjose < &lt; 0.6.2.5

Details

VuXML ID 35b3a492-b05a-11f1-9369-b42e991fc52e
Discovery 2026-09-08
Entry 2026-09-14

https://github.com/OpenIDC/cjose/security/advisories/GHSA-75r7-f5cv-g3wj reports:

OpenIDC/cjose is a C library implementing the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE). Prior to version 0.6.2.5, cjose's JWE decryption path for the AES Key Wrap key-management algorithms (`alg` = `A128KW`, `A192KW`, `A256KW`) does not validate the length of the attacker-supplied `encrypted_key` (JWE Encrypted Key) before unwrapping it into a fixed-size, heap-allocated Content Encryption Key (CEK) buffer. A remote, unauthenticated attacker who can submit a crafted JWE to an application that decrypts it with an AES-KW symmetric key can trigger an out-of-bounds heap write, corrupting the heap. This leads at minimum to a crash (denial of service) and, depending on the heap layout and allocator, may be leverageable for further memory-corruption impact. `cjose_jwe_import()` / `cjose_jwe_decrypt()` are pre-authentication entry points: they parse and process fully attacker-controlled input. Upgrade to cjose 0.6.2.5 to receive a patch. If upgrading is not immediately possible, reject the AES Key Wrap algorithms (`A128KW`/`A192KW`/`A256KW`) for untrusted JWEs at the application layer.

References

CVE Name CVE-2026-53938
URL https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-53938