CWE-326
Allowed-with-ReviewInadequate Encryption Strength
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.
631 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-XX5W-CQXH-W2M4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:19 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:19Cloud Foundry Bits Service Release, versions prior to 2.14.0, uses an insecure hashing algorithm to sign URLs. A remote malicious user may obtain a signed URL and extract the signing key, allowing them complete read and write access to the the Bits Service storage.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-15796"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-326"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2018-11-09T22:29:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Cloud Foundry Bits Service Release, versions prior to 2.14.0, uses an insecure hashing algorithm to sign URLs. A remote malicious user may obtain a signed URL and extract the signing key, allowing them complete read and write access to the the Bits Service storage.",
"id": "GHSA-xx5w-cqxh-w2m4",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:19:12Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:19:12Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15796"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2018-15796"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
Mitigation
Use an encryption scheme that is currently considered to be strong by experts in the field.
CAPEC-112: Brute Force
In this attack, some asset (information, functionality, identity, etc.) is protected by a finite secret value. The attacker attempts to gain access to this asset by using trial-and-error to exhaustively explore all the possible secret values in the hope of finding the secret (or a value that is functionally equivalent) that will unlock the asset.
CAPEC-192: Protocol Analysis
An adversary engages in activities to decipher and/or decode protocol information for a network or application communication protocol used for transmitting information between interconnected nodes or systems on a packet-switched data network. While this type of analysis involves the analysis of a networking protocol inherently, it does not require the presence of an actual or physical network.
CAPEC-20: Encryption Brute Forcing
An attacker, armed with the cipher text and the encryption algorithm used, performs an exhaustive (brute force) search on the key space to determine the key that decrypts the cipher text to obtain the plaintext.