GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-94hh-pjjg-rwmr Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose-browser-runtime

MEDIUM Published 2021-04-19 Modified 2023-03-17 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-29444
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
jose-browser-runtime
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203
Reviewed
2021-04-16

Affected packages

• npm jose-browser-runtime: < 3.11.4 → fixed in 3.11.4

Description

Impact AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block). Patches A patch was released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `>=3.11.4`. Users should upgrade to `^3.11.4`. Credits Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-29444 jose-browser-runtime is an npm package which provides a number of cryptographic functions. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness

References