ghsa-r3r8-w3g2-hq7h
Vulnerability from github
In RNP version 0.18.0 a refactoring regression causes the symmetric session key used for Public-Key Encrypted Session Key (PKESK) packets to be left uninitialized except for zeroing, resulting in it always being an all-zero byte array.
Any data encrypted using public-key encryption in this release can be decrypted trivially by supplying an all-zero session key, fully compromising confidentiality.
The vulnerability affects only public key encryption (PKESK packets). Passphrase-based encryption (SKESK packets) is not affected.
Root cause: Vulnerable session key buffer used in PKESK packet generation.
The defect was introduced in commit 7bd9a8dc356aae756b40755be76d36205b6b161a where initialization
logic inside encrypted_build_skesk() only randomized the key for the
SKESK path and omitted it for the PKESK path.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-13470"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-330"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-11-21T17:15:50Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In RNP version 0.18.0 a refactoring regression causes the symmetric \nsession key used for Public-Key Encrypted Session Key (PKESK) packets to\n be left uninitialized except for zeroing, resulting in it always being \nan all-zero byte array.\n\nAny data encrypted using public-key encryption \nin this release can be decrypted trivially by supplying an all-zero \nsession key, fully compromising confidentiality.\n\nThe vulnerability affects only public key encryption (PKESK packets).\u00a0 Passphrase-based encryption (SKESK packets) is not affected.\n\nRoot cause: Vulnerable session key buffer used in PKESK packet generation.\n\n\n\nThe defect was introduced in commit `7bd9a8dc356aae756b40755be76d36205b6b161a` where initialization \nlogic inside `encrypted_build_skesk()` only randomized the key for the \nSKESK path and omitted it for the PKESK path.",
"id": "GHSA-r3r8-w3g2-hq7h",
"modified": "2025-11-21T18:30:30Z",
"published": "2025-11-21T18:30:30Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13470"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp/commit/7bd9a8dc356aae756b40755be76d36205b6b161a"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-13402"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rnp"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2415863"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp/releases/tag/v0.18.1"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rnp"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://open.ribose.com/advisories/ra-2025-11-20"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-util/librnp"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:X/V:X/RE:H/U:Red",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
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