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
0.53% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASACRYPTOLIB-14912427
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed10 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22023  (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_aead_encrypt function. An attacker can access sensitive information from adjacent memory by supplying crafted input that triggers improper parsing of metadata.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1