Uncaught Exception Affecting nostr package, versions >=0.1.5 <0.44.6
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- published2 Aug 2026
- disclosed26 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 26 Jul 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-248 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade nostr to version 0.44.6 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception in the decrypt and decrypt_to_bytes functions when processing the ?iv= parameter of a NIP-04 encrypted message. An attacker can cause the application to panic and terminate by supplying a malformed initialization vector of incorrect length, resulting in a denial of service.