Out-of-bounds Read Affecting nasa/CryptoLib package, versions [,1.4.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASACRYPTOLIB-14912423
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed10 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-21900  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nasa/CryptoLib to version 1.4.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the cryptography_encrypt function when parsing JSON metadata from KMC server responses. An attacker can cause the process to read memory outside the allocated buffer by supplying short or malformed metadata strings.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1