CVE-2026-65627

Decompression bomb via unbounded zlib:inflate in jose_jwe_zip:uncompress/2

MEDIUM
6.9
CVSS Score
Published: October 26, 2026 at 07:53 PM UTC
Updated: October 27, 2026 at 03:00 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorErlang Jose

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Severity
MEDIUM6.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in potatosalad jose (erlang-jose) allows a remote attacker to exhaust a node's memory with a small crafted JWE token. The jose_jwe_zip:uncompress/2 function in src/jwe/jose_jwe_zip.erl decompresses the DEFLATE-compressed plaintext of a JWE that carries the optional zip: DEF header by calling zlib:inflate/2 on the entire attacker-controlled stream, with no bound on the output size or the inflation ratio. Raw DEFLATE reaches ratios around 1000:1 on highly repetitive input, so a few-kilobyte token inflates to hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes in a single call. Decompression runs automatically during decryption through jose_jwe:block_decrypt/2 (JOSE.JWE.block_decrypt/2 in Elixir), before the recipient can inspect or reject the payload. With the common asymmetric key-management algorithms (RSA-OAEP, ECDH-ES) an attacker needs only the recipient's public key to craft such a token, so no authentication or secret material is required. A single small token can exhaust the node's memory and crash the BEAM, denying service to all users. This issue affects jose: from 1.0.0 before 1.11.13.

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CVSS

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StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-409

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