diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/security/build.gradle
index 59779dfd7703f..44e3c49c6c5db 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/build.gradle
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ dependencies {
   // Dependencies for oidc
   api "com.nimbusds:oauth2-oidc-sdk:11.10.1"
   api "com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:9.37.3"
+  api project(xpackModule('security:lib:jose-wrapper'))
   api "com.nimbusds:lang-tag:1.4.4"
   api "com.sun.mail:jakarta.mail:1.6.3"
   api "net.jcip:jcip-annotations:1.0"
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..39144b359312b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.build'
+
+base {
+  archivesName = 'elasticsearch-jose-wrapper'
+}
+
+dependencies {
+  api "com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:9.37.3"
+  api project(':server')
+}
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/src/main/java/module-info.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/src/main/java/module-info.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..388121e4afd2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
+ * 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License
+ * 2.0.
+ */
+
+module org.elasticsearch.jose {
+    requires org.elasticsearch.server;
+    requires com.nimbusds.jose.jwt;
+    exports org.elasticsearch.jose;
+}
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/jose/JoseWrapper.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/jose/JoseWrapper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d94fff459bab2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/lib/jose-wrapper/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/jose/JoseWrapper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
+ * 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License
+ * 2.0.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.jose;
+
+import com.nimbusds.jwt.JWTClaimsSet;
+import com.nimbusds.jwt.SignedJWT;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.SpecialPermission;
+
+
+import java.security.AccessController;
+import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
+
+/**
+ * This class wraps the operations requiring access in {@link AccessController#doPrivileged(PrivilegedAction)} blocks.
+ * Can't do these operations inline with giving too much access due to how the security manager calculates the stack for lambda expressions.
+ * Isolating the calls here allows for least privilege access to this helper jar.
+ */
+public class JoseWrapper {
+
+    // utility class
+    private JoseWrapper() {}
+
+    public static String getHeaderAsString(SignedJWT signedJWT) {
+        SpecialPermission.check();
+        return AccessController.doPrivileged((PrivilegedAction<String>) () -> signedJWT.getHeader().toString());
+
+    }
+
+    public static String getClaimsSetAsString(JWTClaimsSet jwtClaimsSet) {
+        SpecialPermission.check();
+        return AccessController.doPrivileged((PrivilegedAction<String>) jwtClaimsSet::toString);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/module-info.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/module-info.java
index a072b34da7e96..3377e187a383e 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
     requires oauth2.oidc.sdk;
     requires org.slf4j;
     requires unboundid.ldapsdk;
+    requires org.elasticsearch.jose;
 
     exports org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.action to org.elasticsearch.server;
     exports org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.action.apikey to org.elasticsearch.server;
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/jwt/JwtRealm.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/jwt/JwtRealm.java
index 7613e7b3972af..3cba7c8642cc8 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/jwt/JwtRealm.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/jwt/JwtRealm.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Releasable;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.TimeValue;
+import org.elasticsearch.jose.JoseWrapper;
 import org.elasticsearch.license.XPackLicenseState;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authc.AuthenticationResult;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authc.AuthenticationToken;
@@ -257,14 +258,15 @@ public void authenticate(final AuthenticationToken authenticationToken, final Ac
                 }
                 processValidatedJwt(tokenPrincipal, jwtCacheKey, claimsSet, listener);
             }, ex -> {
+
                 final String msg = "Realm ["
                     + name()
                     + "] JWT validation failed for token=["
                     + tokenPrincipal
                     + "] with header ["
-                    + jwtAuthenticationToken.getSignedJWT().getHeader()
+                    + JoseWrapper.getHeaderAsString(jwtAuthenticationToken.getSignedJWT())
                     + "] and claimSet ["
-                    + jwtAuthenticationToken.getJWTClaimsSet()
+                    + JoseWrapper.getClaimsSetAsString(jwtAuthenticationToken.getJWTClaimsSet())
                     + "]";
 
                 if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.codebases b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.codebases
index 94cfaec2d519c..12c64c29577c5 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.codebases
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.codebases
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 netty-common: io.netty.util.NettyRuntime
 netty-transport: io.netty.channel.Channel
+nimbus-jose-jwt: com.nimbusds.jose.shaded.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor
+oauth2-oidc-sdk: com.nimbusds.jwt.SignedJWT
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy
index 2c9d38e5ae55e..a6546320ed71d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy
@@ -51,3 +51,20 @@ grant codeBase "${codebase.netty-transport}" {
    // the bug says it only happened rarely, and that its fixed, but apparently it still happens rarely!
    permission java.util.PropertyPermission "sun.nio.ch.bugLevel", "write";
 };
+
+grant codeBase "${codebase.oauth2-oidc-sdk}" {
+    // for JSON serialization based on a shaded GSON dependency
+    permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessDeclaredMembers";
+    permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
+};
+
+grant codeBase "${codebase.nimbus-jose-jwt}" {
+    // for JSON serialization based on a shaded GSON dependency
+    permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessDeclaredMembers";
+    permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
+};
+
+grant codeBase "${codebase.elasticsearch-jose-wrapper}" {
+    permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessDeclaredMembers";
+    permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
+};