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Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting oqs package, versions <0.7.2

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUST-OQS-2980370
  • published 19 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 30 Jul 2022
  • credit Wouter Castryck, Thomas Decru
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Introduced: 30 Jul 2022

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How to fix?

Upgrade oqs to version 0.7.2 or higher.

Overview

oqs is a package providing safe Rust bindings for the liboqs C library

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inadequate Encryption Strength in implementation of the SIDH protocol, which exposes secret SIKEp751 keys. The affected schemes are the oqs::kem::Algorithm::Sike* and oqs::kem::Algorithm::Sidh* enum variants.