Insecure Encryption Affecting aescrypt package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-AESCRYPT-20369
  • published15 May 2017
  • disclosed30 Sept 2013
  • creditJens Finkhaeuser

Introduced: 30 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-7463  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-329  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fix version for aescrypt.

Overview

aescrypt is a simple AES encryption / decryption for Ruby.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption because it does not randomize the CBC IV for use with the AESCrypt.encrypt and AESCrypt.decrypt functions, which allows attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a chosen plaintext attack.

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