CVE-2026-48525

A flaw was found in PyJWT. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying an arbitrarily large Base64URL payload segment when verifying detached JSON Web Signature JWS tokens using the unencoded-payload option. This forces excessive CPU work and memory allocations, leading to a Denial of Service...

CVE-2026-48525

PyJWT is a JSON Web Token implementation in Python. From 2.8.0 to 2.12.1, when verifying detached JWS tokens using the unencoded-payload option "b64": false, RFC 7797, PyJWT performs Base64URL decoding of the compact-serialization payload segment before enforcing the detached-payload rules. For...