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python-jwcrypto — security advisory
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.
- Products
- python-jwcrypto
- Affected versions
- 1.1.0-1, 1.1.0-1+deb12u1, 1.5.4-1, 1.5.6-1, 1.5.6-1.1, 1.5.6-1.1~deb13u1, 1.5.6-1.2
- Fixed versions
- 1.5.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-6681
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6681
python-jwcrypto
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-jwcrypto
Fixed versions: 1.5.4-1
python-jwcrypto
Fixed versions: 1.5.4-1
Complete source record
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