CVE-2021-29443

Affected products

Description

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.

Source: NVD

References

• [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29443
• [Patch]https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch
• [Other]https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose
• [Patch]https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch
• [Other]https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose

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