CVE-2026-80179: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
A flaw was found in jwcrypto. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token containing numerous period delimiters. This malformed token can force the JWE.deserialize() function to allocate excessive memory, leading to a MemoryError. This issue results in a denial of service (DoS) for services that process untrusted JWE values.
CVE-2026-80179: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Description
A flaw was found in jwcrypto. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token containing numerous period delimiters. This malformed token can force the JWE.deserialize() function to allocate excessive memory, leading to a MemoryError. This issue results in a denial of service (DoS) for services that process untrusted JWE values.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.9medium
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-25T21:13:03.622Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80179","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a916b3dacd9273b49cabe68
Added to database: 08/28/2026, 11:04:29 UTC
Last updated: 08/28/2026, 22:52:13 UTC
Views: 5
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