CVE-2026-65629: high-severity vulnerability in potatosalad jose
Weak PBKDF2 parameters for password-encrypted private-key export in jose
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.4epss 0.1%
Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort in the jose library allows an attacker who obtains a password-encrypted private-key export to recover the private key through an offline password-cracking attack.
When jose exports a password-encrypted private key with jose_jwk:to_der/2 (JOSE.JWK.to_der/2), the jose_jwk_der:to_binary/3 function in src/jwk/jose_jwk_der.erl serializes the key as a PKCS#8 EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo using the PBES2 scheme with hardcoded key-derivation parameters: PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 with an iteration count of 2048 and an 8-byte (64-bit) random salt. Neither value can be overridden by the caller.
Both values are far below current guidance (OWASP recommends on the order of 600,000 iterations for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, and NIST recommends salts of at least 128 bits), so the key-stretching work factor is roughly 300 times lower than intended and the short salt reduces the cost of precomputation across keys. The symmetric encryption (AES-256-CBC with a 16-byte random IV) is not affected; the weakness is entirely in the derivation strength. An attacker who obtains one of these exported blobs (for example from a backup, configuration repository, object storage, or logs) can mount a cheap offline dictionary or brute-force attack against the export password, and success yields the full private key.
This issue affects jose: from 1.10.0 before 1.11.13.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
potatosalad · joseRelated CVEs — potatosalad jose
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-65627MEDIUMDecompression bomb via unbounded zlib:inflate in jose_jwe_zip:uncompress/2EPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-65631MEDIUMerlang-jose RSA JWK parsing attempts to factor an attacker-controlled modulus, enabling CPU-exhaustion denial of serviceEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-65630MEDIUMTiming side-channel in pure-Erlang X25519 scalar multiplication leaks the private key in joseEPSS 0.1%CVE-2026-65628MEDIUMInfinite recursion (CPU denial-of-service) in JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2 on mismatched key typesEPSS 0.1%CVE-2026-65625MEDIUMAttacker-controlled AES-GCM authentication tag length allows tag forgery in joseEPSS 0.1%CVE-2026-65632MEDIUMECDSA signature length is not validated in jose, allowing signature malleabilityEPSS 0.1%
References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-65629.htmlhttps://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/commit/461b261902531ca016190e780bb70862d561a7e0https://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/commit/85fddd89ee56b6f9c19eff7d9cfffeef62c330b9https://github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-h4gx-8jq2-mfhchttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-65629