Infinite recursion (CPU denial-of-service) in JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2 on mismatched key types
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Description
jose_jwk:shared_secret/2 (exposed in Elixir as JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2) derives an ECDH shared secret from two JWKs. Its first function clause only matches when both JWKs carry the same key type (kty) module, and its fallback clause re-invokes itself as shared_secret(from(YourJWK), from(MyJWK)). Because from/1 returns an already-parsed jose_jwk record unchanged, passing two JWKs whose key types differ (for example an EC key and an RSA key) makes the fallback clause re-enter with identical arguments, producing an unbounded tail-recursive loop that never returns and never crashes.
An application that derives a shared secret from an externally supplied peer public key without first checking that the peer key's type and curve match its own key can be driven into this loop by an attacker-controlled JWK, pinning an Erlang scheduler at 100% CPU. Repeated requests exhaust the available schedulers, resulting in a denial of service.
This issue affects jose: from 1.5.0 before 1.11.13.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 2
- joseaffected: 1.5.0 before 1.11.13CVE List
- joseaffected: 7b80b9f55b9898e1a6901ce136061b241b021d7c before 26182a7de63b91550035d3f08741f7d17f1f675aCVE List
References 5
- github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/commit/7b80b9f55b9898e1a6901ce136061b241b021d7cFixvia CVE List
- github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/commit/26182a7de63b91550035d3f08741f7d17f1f675aFixvia CVE List
- github.com/potatosalad/erlang-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-fpj2-9h59-32ppAdvisoryvia CVE List
- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-65628.htmlReferencevia CVE List
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-65628Referencevia CVE List