CVE record · CVE-2026-80179

Jwcrypto: jwcrypto: denial of service via malformed jwe tokens

CVSS 5.9 MediumEPSS 0.0041 · 35th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 27 Aug 2026, 21:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/gateway-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: automation-controller https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: python3.11-jwcrypto https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: python3.12-jwcrypto https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: python-jwcrypto https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: python-jwcrypto https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) Package name: rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) Package name: rhoai/odh-kserve-storage-initializer-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-mistral-executor https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-nova-api https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-nova-compute-ironic https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-novajoin-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-novajoin-notifier https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-novajoin-server https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-tempest https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Package name: rhosp-rhel8/openstack-tripleoclient https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-80179
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-770
Tags: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2
Denial of service
Published: 27 Aug 2026
Updated: 6 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.9	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0041, the 35th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

27 Aug 2026, 21:14 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
28 Aug 2026, 00:18 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80179 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524147 issue-trackingredhat
github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/security/advisories/GHSA-96rv-c4vc-h4f4

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