Medium
Security advisory
python-jose through 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) during a decode via a crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with a high compression ratio, aka a "JWT bomb." This is similar to CVE-2024-21319.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-33664
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 18:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
python-jose through 3.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) during a decode via a crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with a high compression ratio, aka a "JWT bomb." This is similar to CVE-2024-21319.
osv:CVE-2024-33664
Complete source record
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