CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-1732

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Published: May 10, 2023 | Modified: May 17, 2023
CVSS 3.x
8.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether crypto/rand.Read() returns an error. In rare deployment cases (error thrown by the Read() function), this could lead to a predictable shared secret.

The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not check whether enough randomness was returned from the user provided randomness source. Typically the user provides crypto/rand.Reader, which in the vast majority of cases will always return the right number random bytes. In the cases where it does not, or the user provides a source that does not, the blinding for blindrsa is weak and integrity of the plaintext is not ensured in tkn20.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Circl Cloudflare * 1.3.3 (excluding)

References