Summary

golang-jwt is vulnerable to excessive memory allocation due to improper handling of the parse.ParseUnverified function. This could allow an attacker to cause significant memory consumption by sending a malicious request with an Authorization header containing many period characters.

Products Affected

• Brocade ASCG versions before 3.3.0a

Products Not Affected

• Brocade Fabric OS
  [VEX Justification: Component_not_present]
• Brocade SANnav
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_not_in_execute_path]

Solution

• Security update provided in Brocade ASCG 3.3.0a

Revision History

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