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CVE-2021-29443
published 2021-04-16

CVE-2021-29443: jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations. In vulnerable versions AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384…

PriorityP430medium5.9CVSS 3.1
AVNACHPRNUINSUCHINAN
EPSS
1.17%
64.2th percentile
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.

Affected

11 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
jose_projectjose>= 1.0.0 < 1.28.11.28.1
jose_projectjose>= 2.0.0 < 2.0.52.0.5
jose_projectjose>= 3.0.0 < 3.11.43.11.4
panvajose< 1.28.11.28.1
panvajose
panvajose
panvajose>= 1.0.0 < 1.28.11.28.1
panvajose>= 2.0.0 < 2.0.52.0.5
panvajose>= 3.0.0 < 3.11.43.11.4
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.371:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.37
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.171:4.2-3ubuntu6.17

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.9MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv2.3LOW
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