chore(deps): update module github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 to v4.1.4 [security] (release-3.7)

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4	v4.1.3 → v4.1.4

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Go JOSE Panics in JWE decryption

CVE-2026-34986 / GHSA-78h2-9frx-2jm8

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Details

Impact

Decrypting a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object will panic if the alg field indicates a key wrapping algorithm (one ending in KW, with the exception of A128GCMKW, A192GCMKW, and A256GCMKW) and the encrypted_key field is empty. The panic happens when cipher.KeyUnwrap() in key_wrap.go attempts to allocate a slice with a zero or negative length based on the length of the encrypted_key.

This code path is reachable from ParseEncrypted() / ParseEncryptedJSON() / ParseEncryptedCompact() followed by Decrypt() on the resulting object. Note that the parse functions take a list of accepted key algorithms. If the accepted key algorithms do not include any key wrapping algorithms, parsing will fail and the application will be unaffected.

This panic is also reachable by calling cipher.KeyUnwrap() directly with any ciphertext parameter less than 16 bytes long, but calling this function directly is less common.

Panics can lead to denial of service.

Fixed In

4.1.4 and v3.0.5

Workarounds

If the list of keyAlgorithms passed to ParseEncrypted() / ParseEncryptedJSON() / ParseEncryptedCompact() does not include key wrapping algorithms (those ending in KW), your application is unaffected.

If your application uses key wrapping, you can prevalidate to the JWE objects to ensure the encrypted_key field is nonempty. If your application accepts JWE Compact Serialization, apply that validation to the corresponding field of that serialization (the data between the first and second .).

Thanks

Thanks to Datadog's Security team for finding this issue.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

• https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/security/advisories/GHSA-78h2-9frx-2jm8
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34986
• https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose
• https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4#pkg-constants

This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

go-jose/go-jose (github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4)

v4.1.4

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What's Changed

Fixes Panic in JWE decryption. See GHSA-78h2-9frx-2jm8

Full Changelog: go-jose/go-jose@v4.1.3...v4.1.4

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