GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-2q89-485c-9j2x Improper random reading in CIRCL

MEDIUM Published 2023-05-11 Modified 2023-05-24 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-1732
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/cloudflare/circl
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-755
Reviewed
2023-05-11

Affected packages

• Go github.com/cloudflare/circl: < 1.3.3 → fixed in 1.3.3

Description

Impact When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether `crypto/rand.Read()` returns an error. In rare deployment cases (error thrown by the `Read()` function), this could lead to a predictable shared secret. The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not check whether enough randomness was returned from the user provided randomness source. Typically the user provides `crypto/rand.Reader`, which in the vast majority of cases will always return the right number random bytes. In the cases where it does not, or the user provides a source that does not, the blinding for blindrsa is weak and integrity of the plaintext is not ensured in tkn20. Patches The fix was introduced in CIRCL v. 1.3.3

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-1732 When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether crypto/rand.Read() returns an… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness

References