Medium: python-jwcrypto

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2023-6681)

Affected Packages:

python-jwcrypto

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-jwcrypto to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    python-jwcrypto-0.4.2-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    python-jwcrypto-0.4.2-1.amzn2.0.1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-6681

Mitre: CVE-2023-6681