# CVE-2025-27498: AEADs/ascon-aead: Plaintext exposed in decrypt\_in\_place\_detached even on tag verification failure

- Also known as: GHSA-R38M-44FW-H886
- Severity: CVSS 5.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.4.3
- Published: 2025-03-03 · Updated: 2025-03-03

## Affected

- RustCrypto AEADs: fixed in 0.4.3
- ascon\_aead (crates.io): fixed in 0.4.3

## Description

aes-gcm is a pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM. In decrypt_in_place_detached, the decrypted ciphertext (which is the correct ciphertext) is exposed even if the tag is incorrect. This is because in decrypt_inplace in asconcore.rs, tag verification causes an error to be returned with the plaintext contents still in buffer. The vulnerability is fixed in 0.4.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on RustCrypto AEADs, ascon\_aead, upgrade to a fixed version (0.4.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/security/advisories/GHSA-r38m-44fw-h886
- https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/commit/d1d749ba57e38e65b0e037cd744d0b17f7254037

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