CVE-2024-28864CWE-1333

[TagAwareCipher] - Decryption Failure (Regex Match)

Low · published March 18, 2024

CVSS v3.1
2.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SecureProps is a PHP library designed to simplify the encryption and decryption of property data in objects. A vulnerability in SecureProps version 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 involves a regex failing to detect tags during decryption of encrypted data. This occurs when the encrypted data has been encoded with `NullEncoder` and passed to `TagAwareCipher`, and contains special characters such as `\n`. As a result, the decryption process is skipped since the tags are not detected. This causes the encrypted data to be returned in plain format. The vulnerability affects users who implement `TagAwareCipher` with any base cipher that has `NullEncoder` (not default). The patch for the issue has been released. Users are advised to update to version 1.2.2. As a workaround, one may use the default `Base64Encoder` with the base cipher decorated with `TagAwareCipher` to prevent special characters in the encrypted string from interfering with regex tag detection logic. This workaround is safe but may involve double encoding since `TagAwareCipher` uses `NullEncoder` by default.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
2.6 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00328 · 24.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Published
2024-03-18T21:49Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 MAR 21:49Z
    [TagAwareCipher] - Decryption Failure (Regex Match)
    cvelistv5