CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8897

8.1 HIGH Published 2020-11-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-310, CWE-327

Description

A weak robustness vulnerability exists in the AWS Encryption SDKs for Java, Python, C and Javalcript prior to versions 2.0.0. Due to the non-committing property of AES-GCM (and other AEAD ciphers such as AES-GCM-SIV or (X)ChaCha20Poly1305) used by the SDKs to encrypt messages, an attacker can craft a unique cyphertext which will decrypt to multiple different results, and becomes especially relevant in a multi-recipient setting. We recommend users update their SDK to 2.0.0 or later.

Affected configurations

• amazon aws encryption sdk (< 2.0.0)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness

References