Decryption Attacks Affecting attic package, versions [,0.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ATTIC-40328
  • published5 Apr 2015
  • disclosed5 Apr 2015
  • creditThomas Waldmann

Introduced: 5 Apr 2015

CVE-2015-4082  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade attic to version 0.15 or higher.

Overview

attic is a Deduplicated backups.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to decryption attacks. It is possible for the client to determine whether to encrypt the sent data, via a query to the server. An attacker may disable the encryption by deleting the storage on the server and specifying encryption to be off. On the next automated backup, the client will send data unencrypted to the server, including passwords and passphrases.

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