CVE-2021-4239

Weak encryption and denial of service in github.com/flynn/noise

High · published December 27, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00364 · 29.1th percentile
Published
2022-12-27T21:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 21:13Z
    Weak encryption and denial of service in github.com/flynn/noise
    cvelistv5