GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-hfpc-8r3f-gw53 AWS-LC has PKCS7_verify Signature Validation Bypass
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- aws-lc-sys
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-03
Affected packages
• crates.io aws-lc-sys: >= 0.24.0, < 0.38.0 → fixed in 0.38.0
Description
Summary
AWS-LC is an open-source, general-purpose cryptographic library.
Impact
Improper signature validation in PKCS7_verify() in AWS-LC allows an unauthenticated user to bypass signature verification when processing PKCS7 objects with Authenticated Attributes.
Customers of AWS services do not need to take action. aws-lc-sys contains code from AWS-LC. Applications using aws-lc-sys should upgrade to the most recent release of aws-lc-sys.
Impacted versions:
aws-lc-sys versions: >= 0.24.0, < 0.38.0
Patches
The patch is included in v0.38.0
Workarounds
There is no workaround. Applications using aws-lc-sys should upgrade to the most recent release of aws-lc-sys.
Resources
If there are any questions or comments about this advisory, contact [AWS/Amazon] Security via the vulnerability reporting page or directly via email to [email protected]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness
References
- https://github.com/aws/aws-lc-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-hfpc-8r3f-gw53 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-lc/security/advisories/GHSA-jchq-39cv-q4wj web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3338 advisory
- https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-005-AWS web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-lc-rs package
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0047.html web