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Authentication Bypass Affecting openpgp package, versions <1.3.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-OPENPGP-2932022
  • published 19 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 17 May 2022
  • credit jhutchings1
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Introduced: 17 May 2022

CVE-2015-8013 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-287 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade openpgp to version 1.3.0 or higher.

Overview

openpgp is a JavaScript implementation of the OpenPGP protocol.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass due to insecure implementation of the S2K method. S2K decrypts arbitrary messages regardless of passphrase for the crafted PGP keys, this would allow remote attackers to bypass authentication if message decryption is used as an authentication mechanism via a crafted symmetrically encrypted PGP message.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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