JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message

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    "title": "JWX vulnerable to a denial of service attack using compressed JWE message",
    "summary": "JWX is Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies. This vulnerability allows an attacker with a trusted public key to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition by crafting a malicious JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token with an exceptionally high compression ratio. This issue has been patched in versions 1.2.29 and 2.0.21.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.259458784Z",
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/28xxx/CVE-2024-28122.json",
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  "published_at": "2024-03-09T00:45:50.129+00:00"
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