Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
PyJWT versions from 2.9.0 up to but not including 2.14.0 are affected. A malformed RSA JWK inside a JWK Set, with an invalid private exponent and no CRT parameters, raises a plain ValueError that PyJWKSet does not catch, so parsing of the whole set aborts and later valid keys are not loaded. An attacker would need a malformed key to already be present in a set the application parses; the result is an availability failure, not a signature bypass. Upgrade to PyJWT 2.14.0.
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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 (GitHub_M) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0055, the 46th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-w6j9-cwv2-h6wq
- OSV: GHSA-w6j9-cwv2-h6wq
- github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt/security/advisories/GHSA-w6j9-cwv2-h6wq
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102274
- github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt/commit/8915570a0bfda9f0ff0e34e7fb09bdb9d71580cf
- github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt
- github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt/releases/tag/2.14.0