CVE-2016-5429

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Published 2016-09-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
3.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
3.7

Description

jose-php before 2.2.1 does not use constant-time operations for HMAC comparison, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a timing attack, related to JWE.php and JWS.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
47%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/f03b986b4439e20b0fd635109b48afe96cf0099b#diff-37b0d289d6375ba4a7740401950ccdd6R287

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/nov/jose-php/commit/1cce55e27adf0274193eb1cd74b927a398a3df4b#diff-2a982d82ef0f673fd0ba2beba0e18420R138

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
jose-php_projectjose-php{"endIncluding":"2.2.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.