CPANSA-CryptX-2018-01: CryptX vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2018-10-26T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2018-10-26T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

A user can pass anything as the tag into gcm_decrypt_verify() and it will return decrypted plaintext.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-25099

Vulnerability Description

In the CryptX module before 0.062 for Perl, gcm_decrypt_verify() and chacha20poly1305_decrypt_verify() do not verify the tag.

Weakness CWE-347 : Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
CryptX less than 0.062
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
Fixed

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Fri Oct 26 00:00:00 2018 First release

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