Heap-based Buffer Overflow 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
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASACRYPTOLIB-14912429
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed10 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22027  (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 convert_hexstring_to_byte_array function. An attacker can corrupt adjacent heap memory by supplying a malformed or oversized hex string when importing SA fields from the database.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1