gurpartap/aescrypt · Security
Aescrypt does not sufficiently use random values
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4c4w-3q45-hp9j
- CVE ID
- CVE-2013-7463
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
The aescrypt gem 1.0.0 for Ruby does not randomize the CBC IV for use with the AESCrypt.encrypt and AESCrypt.decrypt functions, which allows attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a chosen plaintext attack.
CWEs
- CWE-330 · Use of Insufficiently Random Values
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7463 ↗
- https://github.com/Gurpartap/aescrypt/issues/4 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227173428/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98035 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/aescrypt/CVE-2013-7463.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4c4w-3q45-hp9j ↗