PYSEC-2026-2529 joserfc's PBES2 p2c Unbounded Iteration Count enables Denial of Service (DoS)

Summary A resource exhaustion vulnerability in joserfc allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service DoS via CPU exhaustion. When the library decrypts a JSON Web Encryption JWE token using Password-Based Encryption PBES2 algorithms, it reads the p2c PBES2 Count parameter directl...