MEDIUM5.8
GHSA-xwmg-2g98-w7v9
Nimbus JOSE + JWT is vulnerable to DoS attacks when processing deeply nested JSON
Quick fix
GHSA-xwmg-2g98-w7v9 — com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
# pom.xml: bump <version>10.0.2</version> for com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwtDetails
Connect2id Nimbus JOSE + JWT before 10.0.2 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a deeply nested JSON object supplied in a JWT claim set, because of uncontrolled recursion. NOTE: this is independent of the Gson 2.11.0 issue because the Connect2id product could have checked the JSON object nesting depth, regardless of what limits (if any) were imposed by Gson.
Are you affected?
Enter the version of the package you're using.
Affected packages
Maven/com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt
Introduced in:
9.38-rc1Fixed in: 10.0.2Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>10.0.2</version> for com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwtMaven/com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 9.37.4Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>9.37.4</version> for com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwtReferences
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53864[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/google/gson/commit/1039427ff0100293dd3cf967a53a55282c0fef6b[WEB]
- https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt[PACKAGE]
- https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/commits/f7fb882cc08f027c9ceb874acec3b51c6222861c[WEB]
- https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/issues/583/stackoverflowerror-due-to-deeply-nested[WEB]
- https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/issues/593/back-port-cve-2025-53864-fix-to-9x-branch[WEB]
- https://github.com/google/gson/compare/gson-parent-2.11.0...gson-parent-2.12.0[WEB]