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2 vulnerabilities by noiseprotocol
CVE-2021-4239 (GCVE-0-2021-4239)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2022-12-27 21:13 – Updated: 2025-04-14 16:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Weak encryption and denial of service in github.com/flynn/noise
Summary
The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE 400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/flynn/noise | github.com/flynn/noise |
Affected:
0 , < 1.0.0
(semver)
|
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CVE-2021-4239 (GCVE-0-2021-4239)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-27 21:13 – Updated: 2025-04-14 16:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Weak encryption and denial of service in github.com/flynn/noise
Summary
The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE 400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
1 product
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|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/flynn/noise | github.com/flynn/noise |
Affected:
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