CVE-2026-21899 (GCVE-0-2026-21899)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-10 00:11 – Updated: 2026-01-12 20:23
VLAI?
Title
CryptoLib has an out-of-bounds read and crash vulnerability when decoding an empty Base64url string
Summary
CryptoLib provides a software-only solution using the CCSDS Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures (SDLS-EP) to secure communications between a spacecraft running the core Flight System (cFS) and a ground station. Prior to version 1.4.3, in base64urlDecode, padding-stripping dereferences input[inputLen - 1] before checking that inputLen > 0 or that input != NULL. For inputLen == 0, this becomes an OOB read at input[-1], potentially crashing the process. If input == NULL and inputLen == 0, it dereferences NULL - 1. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.3.
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
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Nomenclature
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