CVE-2026-39373

high Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: April 7, 2026 (36 days ago)
Last Modified: April 7, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in JWCrypto, a Python library for JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Encryption (JWE) specifications. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted JWE tokens that use ZIP compression. While the input token size is limited, the decompressed output size is not validated, allowing an attacker to cause excessive memory consumption. This can lead to memory exhaustion on affected systems, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

CWE

CWE-770

Affected Products

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com