{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security-advisories@github.com", "ID": "CVE-2021-29443", "STATE": "PUBLIC", "TITLE": "Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "jose", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "< 1.28.1" }, { "version_value": ">= 2.0.0, < 2.0.5" }, { "version_value": ">= 3.0.0, < 3.11.4" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "panva" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations. In vulnerable versions 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. 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). All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || >=3.11.4`. Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to ^1.28.1, their v2.x dependency to ^2.0.5, and their v3.x dependency to ^3.11.4. Thanks to Jason from Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": { "attackComplexity": "HIGH", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "NONE", "baseScore": 5.9, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N", "version": "3.1" } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "{\"CWE-203\":\"Observable Discrepancy\"}" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch" }, { "name": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose" } ] }, "source": { "advisory": "GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch", "discovery": "UNKNOWN" } }