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CVE-2023-1732GHSA-2Q89-485C-9J2XGO-2023-1765

Improper random reading in CIRCL

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in <1.3.3, 1.3.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cloudflare CIRCL

    fixed in <1.3.3

  • github.com/cloudflare/circlGo

    fixed in 1.3.3

References 1

GitHub · cloudflare/circl