Missing Cryptographic Step Affecting cassproject package, versions <1.5.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-CASSPROJECT-2838967
  • published 19 May 2022
  • disclosed 19 May 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade cassproject to version 1.5.8 or higher.

Overview

cassproject is a Competency and Skills Service

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Cryptographic Step when storing cryptographic keys. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a server administrator access to an account’s cryptographic keys.

Notes:

  1. This affects CaSS servers using standalone username/password authentication, which uses a method that expects e2e cryptographic security of authorization credentials.

  2. The vulnerable accounts are only resecured when the user next logs in using standalone authentication after upgrading.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

7.2 high