CVE-2023-1732CWE-20CWE-755

Improper random reading in CIRCL

Medium · published May 10, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether crypto/rand.Read() returns an error. In rare deployment cases (error thrown by the Read() function), this could lead to a predictable shared secret.

The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not check whether enough randomness was returned from the user provided randomness source. Typically the user provides crypto/rand.Reader, which in the vast majority of cases will always return the right number random bytes. In the cases where it does not, or the user provides a source that does not, the blinding for blindrsa is weak and integrity of the plaintext is not ensured in tkn20.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00386 · 31.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation; CWE-755 · Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2023-05-10T11:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 MAY 11:41Z
    Improper random reading in CIRCL
    cvelistv5