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ghsa-4c4w-3q45-hp9j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2017-10-24 18:33

Modified

2023-01-25 22:56

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

Aescrypt does not sufficiently use random values

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-4c4w-3q45-hp9j",
  "modified": "2023-01-25T22:56:46Z",
  "published": "2017-10-24T18:33:36Z",
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Aescrypt does not sufficiently use random values"
}

CVE-2013-7463 (GCVE-0-2013-7463)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-04-19 17:00

Modified

2024-08-06 18:09

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/Gurpartap/aescrypt/issues/4	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98035	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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