CVE-2023-42811CWE-347

AEADs/aes-gcm: Plaintext exposed in decrypt_in_place_detached even on tag verification failure

Medium · published September 22, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

aes-gcm is a pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM. Starting in version 0.10.0 and prior to version 0.10.3, in the AES GCM implementation of decrypt_in_place_detached, the decrypted ciphertext (i.e. the correct plaintext) is exposed even if tag verification fails. If a program using the `aes-gcm` crate's `decrypt_in_place*` APIs accesses the buffer after decryption failure, it will contain a decryption of an unauthenticated input. Depending on the specific nature of the program this may enable Chosen Ciphertext Attacks (CCAs) which can cause a catastrophic breakage of the cipher including full plaintext recovery. Version 0.10.3 contains a fix for this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00230 · 13.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-347 · Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Published
2023-09-22T15:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 SEP 15:19Z
    AEADs/aes-gcm: Plaintext exposed in decrypt_in_place_detached even on tag verification failure
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