Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting nasa/CryptoLib package, versions [,1.4.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.45% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASACRYPTOLIB-14912426
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed10 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22024  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (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 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the cryptography_encrypt function. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion by repeatedly invoking this function, leading to gradual depletion of available memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1