CVE-2021-29443

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.012 · 67 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.17% (67th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

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9 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations. In vulnerable versions AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. A possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block). All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || >=3.11.4`. Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to ^1.28.1, their v2.x dependency to ^2.0.5, and their v3.x dependency to ^3.11.4. Thanks to Jason from Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-203USprimaryCWE-203USCWE-696US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

panva jose≤ < 1.28.1enisa_euvdEU
panva jose2.0.0, → 2.0.5enisa_euvdEU
panva jose3.0.0, → 3.11.4enisa_euvdEU
panva jose1.0.0 → 1.28.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
panva jose2.0.0 → 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
panva jose3.0.0 → 3.11.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:panva:jose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm jose1.0.0 → 1.28.1osvUSpkg:npm/jose
npm jose2.0.0 → 2.0.5osvUSpkg:npm/jose
npm jose3.0.0 → 3.11.4osvUSpkg:npm/jose

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgchPadding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose2021-04-19ghsa · osvUS
jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations. ### Impact [AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7518#section-5.2) (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block). ### Patches All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || >=3.11.4`. Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to [`^1.28.1`](https://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v1.28.1), their v2.x dependency to [`^2.0.5`](https://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v2.0.5), and their v3.x dependency to [`^3.11.4`](https://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v3.11.4) ### Credits Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-04-16modified 2026-06-22

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references (8)

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