# CVE-2021-31796: An inadequate encryption vulnerability discovered in CyberArk Credential Provider before 12.1 may lead to Information Disclosure.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2021-09-02 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An inadequate encryption vulnerability discovered in CyberArk Credential Provider before 12.1 may lead to Information Disclosure. An attacker may realistically have enough information that the number of possible keys (for a credential file) is only one, and the number is usually not higher than 2^36.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.cyberark.com/resources/blog
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/1
- https://korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2021-008.txt
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164023/CyberArk-Credential-File-Insufficient-Effective-Key-Space.html
- https://github.com/unmanarc/CACredDecoder

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