Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting dcrypt-symmetric package, versions <2.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-DCRYPTSYMMETRIC-19424708
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed9 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Aug 2026

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dcrypt-symmetric to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in the handling of stream structure fields such as terminator, counter, and length, which are not authenticated. An attacker can manipulate stream data by omitting, replaying, or reordering frames, or by causing excessive memory allocation through crafted stream fields.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1