CVE-2023-6681
Status: ModifiedMedium (5.3)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Base score: 5.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.88%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 58
- Score date: 10/1/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (6)
CWEs
- CWE-400
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3267
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9281
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6681
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260843
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3267
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6681
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260843
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