CVE-2025-30204 (GCVE-0-2025-30204)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-21 21:42 – Updated: 2025-04-10 13:03
VLAI
Title
jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header parsing
Summary
golang-jwt is a Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens. Starting in version 3.2.0 and prior to versions 5.2.2 and 4.5.2, the function parse.ParseUnverified splits (via a call to strings.Split) its argument (which is untrusted data) on periods. As a result, in the face of a malicious request whose Authorization header consists of Bearer followed by many period characters, a call to that function incurs allocations to the tune of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument), with a constant factor of about 16. This issue is fixed in 5.2.2 and 4.5.2.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-24 14:10 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
golang-jwt jwt Affected: >= 3.2.0, < 4.5.2
Affected: >= 5.0.0-rc.1, < 5.2.2
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