Heap-based Buffer Overflow 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
0.47% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASACRYPTOLIB-14912428
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed10 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22697  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow via the KMC Base64 decode process. An attacker can cause out-of-bounds writes on the heap, potentially leading to process crashes or arbitrary code execution by supplying an oversized Base64 string in the KMC JSON response.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1