jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations.
Impact
AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed JWEDecryptionFailed would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block).
Patches
All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are ^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || >=3.11.4.
Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to ^1.28.1, their v2.x dependency to ^2.0.5, and their v3.x dependency to ^3.11.4
Credits
Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.
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This PR contains the following updates:
1.28.0
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GitHub Vulnerability Alerts
CVE-2021-29443
jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations.
Impact
AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed
JWEDecryptionFailed
would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block).Patches
All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are
^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || >=3.11.4
.Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to
^1.28.1
, their v2.x dependency to^2.0.5
, and their v3.x dependency to^3.11.4
Credits
Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.
Configuration
:date: Schedule: "" (UTC).
:vertical_traffic_light: Automerge: Disabled by config. Please merge this manually once you are satisfied.
:recycle: Rebasing: Whenever PR becomes conflicted, or you tick the rebase/retry checkbox.
:no_bell: Ignore: Close this PR and you won't be reminded about this update again.
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