Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web…
CVE-2026-116585
Summary Decrypting a ciphertext with "A128CBC-HS256", "A192CBC-HS384", or "A256CBC-HS512" can result in a panic on untrusted input. Note this advisory is the same as https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-6mp9-8xrw-74r4. Details Insufficient validation of parameters can lead to attempting to index into an empty buffer. See https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/pull/292. Workarounds If the application does not require the CBC-HMAC modes for content encryption, and is using github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, do not include them in the list of ContentEncryption algorithms passed to ParseEncrypted / ParseEncryptedJSON / ParseEncryptedCompact. Impact Denial of service vulnerability. Any application which decrypts untrusted ciphertexts with the indicated algorithms is affected. Acknowledgements Thanks to Joshua Rogers of AISLE Research for reporting this problem.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.9 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- EPSS
- 0.00264% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 26 October 2026
- Last updated
- 31 October 2026
- Affected
- go · github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3
- Weakness
- CWE-129
- Assigner
- security-advisories@github.com
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/35883f7999e87cbd1b1f4cda07fdad8cd71c3dd6
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/commit/74114c2fa22669a2b2a296746eaa82e15566fd54
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/pull/292
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/releases/tag/v4.1.5
- https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-4w3g-jfj2-cw2q
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116585
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4w3g-jfj2-cw2q
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