Answer in brief
CVE-2026-80179 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability in Jwcrypto: jwcrypto: denial of service via malformed jwe tokens. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.9. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-27/gateway-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/automation-controllergeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python3.11-jwcryptogeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python3.12-jwcryptogeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/python-jwcryptogeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhoai/odh-kserve-storage-initializer-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-mistral-executorgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-nova-apigeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-nova-compute-ironicgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-novajoin-basegeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-novajoin-notifiergeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-novajoin-servergeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-tempestgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-tripleoclientgeneric | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Aug 27, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 27, 2026
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.
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