CVE-2026-65628: medium-severity vulnerability in potatosalad jose
Infinite recursion (CPU denial-of-service) in JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2 on mismatched key types
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.1%
jose_jwk:shared_secret/2 (exposed in Elixir as JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2) derives an ECDH shared secret from two JWKs. Its first function clause only matches when both JWKs carry the same key type (kty) module, and its fallback clause re-invokes itself as shared_secret(from(YourJWK), from(MyJWK)). Because from/1 returns an already-parsed jose_jwk record unchanged, passing two JWKs whose key types differ (for example an EC key and an RSA key) makes the fallback clause re-enter with identical arguments, producing an unbounded tail-recursive loop that never returns and never crashes.
An application that derives a shared secret from an externally supplied peer public key without first checking that the peer key's type and curve match its own key can be driven into this loop by an attacker-controlled JWK, pinning an Erlang scheduler at 100% CPU. Repeated requests exhaust the available schedulers, resulting in a denial of service.
This issue affects jose: from 1.5.0 before 1.11.13.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
potatosalad · joseRelated CVEs — potatosalad jose
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-65628.htmlhttps://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/commit/26182a7de63b91550035d3f08741f7d17f1f675ahttps://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/commit/7b80b9f55b9898e1a6901ce136061b241b021d7chttps://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-fpj2-9h59-32pphttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-65628