diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8230a11e9..33ce2fb91 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ This release also:
   [Issue 901](https://github.com/jwtk/jjwt/issues/901).
 * Ensures that Secret JWKs for HMAC-SHA algorithms with `k` sizes larger than the algorithm minimum can
   be parsed/used as expected. See [Issue #905](https://github.com/jwtk/jjwt/issues/905) 
+* Ensures there is an upper bound (maximum) iterations enforced for PBES2 decryption to help mitigate potential DoS 
+  attacks. Many thanks to Jingcheng Yang and Jianjun Chen from Sichuan University and Zhongguancun Lab for their 
+  work on this. See [PR 911](https://github.com/jwtk/jjwt/pull/911).
 * Fixes various typos in documentation and JavaDoc. Thanks to those contributing pull requests for these!
 
 ### 0.12.3
diff --git a/impl/src/main/java/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm.java b/impl/src/main/java/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm.java
index 064b545d3..796c78c8e 100644
--- a/impl/src/main/java/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm.java
+++ b/impl/src/main/java/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm.java
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@
 package io.jsonwebtoken.impl.security;
 
 import io.jsonwebtoken.JweHeader;
+import io.jsonwebtoken.UnsupportedJwtException;
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.DefaultJweHeader;
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.lang.Bytes;
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.lang.CheckedFunction;
+import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.lang.Parameter;
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.lang.ParameterReadable;
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.lang.RequiredParameterReader;
 import io.jsonwebtoken.lang.Assert;
@@ -50,11 +52,13 @@ public class Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm extends CryptoAlgorithm implements KeyAlgorithm
             "[JWA RFC 7518, Section 4.8.1.2](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7518.html#section-4.8.1.2) " +
                     "recommends password-based-encryption iterations be greater than or equal to " +
                     MIN_RECOMMENDED_ITERATIONS + ". Provided: ";
+    private static final double MAX_ITERATIONS_FACTOR = 2.5;
 
     private final int HASH_BYTE_LENGTH;
     private final int DERIVED_KEY_BIT_LENGTH;
     private final byte[] SALT_PREFIX;
     private final int DEFAULT_ITERATIONS;
+    private final int MAX_ITERATIONS;
     private final KeyAlgorithm<SecretKey, SecretKey> wrapAlg;
 
     private static byte[] toRfcSaltPrefix(byte[] bytes) {
@@ -106,6 +110,7 @@ protected Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm(int hashBitLength, KeyAlgorithm<SecretKey, SecretK
         } else {
             DEFAULT_ITERATIONS = DEFAULT_SHA256_ITERATIONS;
         }
+        MAX_ITERATIONS = (int) (DEFAULT_ITERATIONS * MAX_ITERATIONS_FACTOR); // upper bound to help mitigate DoS attacks
 
         // https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7518.html#section-4.8, 2nd paragraph, last sentence:
         // "Their derived-key lengths respectively are 16, 24, and 32 octets." :
@@ -184,7 +189,16 @@ public SecretKey getDecryptionKey(DecryptionKeyRequest<Password> request) throws
         final Password key = Assert.notNull(request.getKey(), "Decryption Password cannot be null.");
         ParameterReadable reader = new RequiredParameterReader(header);
         final byte[] inputSalt = reader.get(DefaultJweHeader.P2S);
-        final int iterations = reader.get(DefaultJweHeader.P2C);
+
+        Parameter<Integer> param = DefaultJweHeader.P2C;
+        final int iterations = reader.get(param);
+        if (iterations > MAX_ITERATIONS) {
+            String msg = "JWE Header " + param + " value " + iterations + " exceeds " + getId() + " maximum " +
+                    "allowed value " + MAX_ITERATIONS + ". The larger value is rejected to help mitigate " +
+                    "potential Denial of Service attacks.";
+            throw new UnsupportedJwtException(msg);
+        }
+
         final byte[] rfcSalt = Bytes.concat(SALT_PREFIX, inputSalt);
         final char[] password = key.toCharArray(); // password will be safely cleaned/zeroed in deriveKey next:
         final SecretKey derivedKek = deriveKey(request, password, rfcSalt, iterations);
diff --git a/impl/src/test/groovy/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithmTest.groovy b/impl/src/test/groovy/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithmTest.groovy
index 33513d5f8..36142646e 100644
--- a/impl/src/test/groovy/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithmTest.groovy
+++ b/impl/src/test/groovy/io/jsonwebtoken/impl/security/Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithmTest.groovy
@@ -16,8 +16,11 @@
 package io.jsonwebtoken.impl.security
 
 import io.jsonwebtoken.Jwts
+import io.jsonwebtoken.UnsupportedJwtException
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.DefaultJweHeaderMutator
 import io.jsonwebtoken.impl.DefaultMutableJweHeader
+import io.jsonwebtoken.io.Encoders
+import io.jsonwebtoken.lang.Strings
 import io.jsonwebtoken.security.KeyRequest
 import io.jsonwebtoken.security.Keys
 import io.jsonwebtoken.security.Password
@@ -50,6 +53,36 @@ class Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithmTest {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void testExceedsMaxIterations() {
+        for (Pbes2HsAkwAlgorithm alg : ALGS) {
+            def password = Keys.password('correct horse battery staple'.toCharArray())
+            def iterations = alg.MAX_ITERATIONS + 1
+            // we make the JWE string directly from JSON here (instead of using Jwts.builder()) to avoid
+            // the computational time it would take to create such JWEs with excessive iterations as well as
+            // avoid the builder throwing any exceptions (and this is what a potential attacker would do anyway):
+            def headerJson = """
+            {
+              "p2c": ${iterations},
+              "p2s": "831BG_z_ZxkN7Rnt5v1iYm1A0bn6VEuxpW4gV7YBMoE",
+              "alg": "${alg.id}",
+              "enc": "A256GCM"
+            }"""
+            def jwe = Encoders.BASE64URL.encode(Strings.utf8(headerJson)) +
+                    '.OSAhMk3FtaCeZ5v1c8bWBgssEVqx2mCPUEnJUsg4hwIQyrUP-LCYkg.' +
+                    'K4R_-zb4qaZ3R0W8.sGS4mcT_xBhZC1d7G-g.kWqd_4sEsaKrWE_hMZ5HmQ'
+            try {
+                Jwts.parser().decryptWith(password).build().parse(jwe)
+            } catch (UnsupportedJwtException expected) {
+                String msg = "JWE Header 'p2c' (PBES2 Count) value ${iterations} exceeds ${alg.id} maximum allowed " +
+                        "value ${alg.MAX_ITERATIONS}. The larger value is rejected to help mitigate potential " +
+                        "Denial of Service attacks."
+                //println msg
+                assertEquals msg, expected.message
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     // for manual/developer testing only.  Takes a long time and there is no deterministic output to assert
     /*
     @Test