diff --git a/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go b/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go
index 67d43d3fa..d065c637e 100644
--- a/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go
+++ b/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ func checkGRPCMatch(t *testing.T, expectedVuln, matchingVuln *v1.Vulnerability)
 	}
 	expectedVuln.MetadataV2 = nil
 	matchingVuln.MetadataV2 = nil
+
+	expectedVuln.Description = normalizeString(expectedVuln.Description)
+	matchingVuln.Description = normalizeString(matchingVuln.Description)
+
 	assert.Equal(t, expectedVuln, matchingVuln)
 }
 
diff --git a/e2etests/sanity_test.go b/e2etests/sanity_test.go
index bca846a75..dbf503f7c 100644
--- a/e2etests/sanity_test.go
+++ b/e2etests/sanity_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	v1 "github.com/stackrox/scanner/api/v1"
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ func checkMatch(t *testing.T, source string, expectedVuln, matchingVuln v1.Vulne
 	}
 	expectedVuln.Metadata = nil
 	matchingVuln.Metadata = nil
+
+	expectedVuln.Description = normalizeString(expectedVuln.Description)
+	matchingVuln.Description = normalizeString(matchingVuln.Description)
+
 	assert.Equal(t, expectedVuln, matchingVuln)
 }
 
@@ -183,3 +188,8 @@ func deepGet(m map[string]interface{}, keys ...string) interface{} {
 	}
 	return currVal
 }
+
+// normalizeString removes newlines and collapses multiple spaces into one.
+func normalizeString(s string) string {
+	return strings.Join(strings.Fields(s), " ")
+}
diff --git a/e2etests/testcase_test.go b/e2etests/testcase_test.go
index dbefbceb3..1ab075a09 100644
--- a/e2etests/testcase_test.go
+++ b/e2etests/testcase_test.go
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ var testCases = []testCase{
 					{
 						Name:          "CVE-2018-1125",
 						NamespaceName: "centos:7",
-						Description:   "DOCUMENTATION: If a process inspected by pgrep has an argument longer than INT_MAX bytes, \"int bytes\" could wrap around back to a large positive int (rather than approaching zero), leading to a stack buffer overflow via strncat().                           MITIGATION: The procps suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is built with FORTIFY, which limits the impact of this stack overflow (and others like it) to a crash.",
+						Description:   "DOCUMENTATION: If a process inspected by pgrep has an argument longer than INT_MAX bytes, \"int bytes\" could wrap around back to a large positive int (rather than approaching zero), leading to a stack buffer overflow via strncat().                          MITIGATION: The procps suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is built with FORTIFY, which limits the impact of this stack overflow (and others like it) to a crash.",
 						Link:          "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1125",
 						Severity:      "Low",
 						Metadata: map[string]interface{}{
@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ var testCases = []testCase{
 					},
 					{
 						Name:        "CVE-2020-1045",
-						Description: "<p>A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft ASP.NET Core parses encoded cookie names.</p>\n<p>The ASP.NET Core cookie parser decodes entire cookie strings which could allow a malicious attacker to set a second cookie with the name being percent encoded.</p>\n<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by fixing the way the ASP.NET Core cookie parser handles encoded names.</p>\n",
+						Description: "<p>A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft ASP.NET Core parses encoded cookie names.</p>\n<p>The ASP.NET Core cookie parser decodes entire cookie strings which could allow a malicious attacker to set a second cookie with the name being percent encoded.</p>\n<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by fixing the way the ASP.NET Core cookie parser handles encoded names.</p>",
 						Link:        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1045",
 						Metadata: map[string]interface{}{
 							"NVD": map[string]interface{}{
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ var testCases = []testCase{
 					},
 					{
 						Name:        "CVE-2020-1597",
-						Description: "A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against an ASP.NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication.\nA remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the ASP.NET Core application.\nThe update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the ASP.NET Core web application handles web requests.\n",
+						Description: "A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against an ASP.NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication.\nA remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the ASP.NET Core application.\nThe update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the ASP.NET Core web application handles web requests.",
 						Link:        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1597",
 						Metadata: map[string]interface{}{
 							"NVD": map[string]interface{}{
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index df1cf76ff..091498e85 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop v1.0.4 // indirect
 	github.com/ghodss/yaml v1.0.1-0.20190212211648-25d852aebe32 // indirect
 	github.com/go-git/gcfg v1.5.1-0.20230307220236-3a3c6141e376 // indirect
-	github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.3 // indirect
+	github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.3 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
 	github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.21.0 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 60f470398..9e0777ef0 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 v5.16.4/go.mod h1:4Ge4alE/5gPs30F2H1esi2gPd69R0C39lo
 github.com/go-gl/glfw v0.0.0-20190409004039-e6da0acd62b1/go.mod h1:vR7hzQXu2zJy9AVAgeJqvqgH9Q5CA+iKCZ2gyEVpxRU=
 github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw v0.0.0-20191125211704-12ad95a8df72/go.mod h1:tQ2UAYgL5IevRw8kRxooKSPJfGvJ9fJQFa0TUsXzTg8=
 github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw v0.0.0-20200222043503-6f7a984d4dc4/go.mod h1:tQ2UAYgL5IevRw8kRxooKSPJfGvJ9fJQFa0TUsXzTg8=
-github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.3 h1:CVLmWDhDVRa6Mi/IgCgaopNosCaHz7zrMeF9MlZRkrs=
-github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.3/go.mod h1:x4oUasVrzR7071A4TnHLGSPpNOm2a21K9Kf04k1rs08=
+github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4 h1:moDMcTHmvE6Groj34emNPLs/qtYXRVcd6S7NHbHz3kA=
+github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4/go.mod h1:x4oUasVrzR7071A4TnHLGSPpNOm2a21K9Kf04k1rs08=
 github.com/go-kit/kit v0.8.0/go.mod h1:xBxKIO96dXMWWy0MnWVtmwkA9/13aqxPnvrjFYMA2as=
 github.com/go-kit/kit v0.9.0/go.mod h1:xBxKIO96dXMWWy0MnWVtmwkA9/13aqxPnvrjFYMA2as=
 github.com/go-kit/log v0.1.0/go.mod h1:zbhenjAZHb184qTLMA9ZjW7ThYL0H2mk7Q6pNt4vbaY=