CVE-2023-6681: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 38 only; version 39 only
• Latchset Jwcrypto: before 1.5.1 (fixed in 1.5.1)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: version 8.0 only

Published 2024-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.