# CVE-2026-89312: AesGcmCryptor.Open passes attacker-controlled nonce to cipher.AEAD.Open without length check, causing panic on wrong-size IV

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108632, GHSA-XX6H-2JGG-93M2
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.0-rc4
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-23

## Summary

The AesGcmCryptor component in a Go library that handles JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption is affected. A crafted JWE with an incorrectly sized initialization vector can cause the decrypting process to panic and crash, which may lead to denial of service for the application handling the input.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- github.com/ThalesGroup/gose: from 0.7.3, through 0.13.0-rc1
- github.com/eclipse-keypont/gose: fixed in 1.0.0-rc4

## Description

`AesGcmCryptor.Open` passed a caller-supplied nonce straight to `cipher.AEAD.Open` without checking its length. The Go standard library **panics** rather than returning an error when a GCM nonce is not exactly `NonceSize()` bytes, so a JWE carrying a wrong-sized IV crashes the decrypting goroutine.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on github.com/ThalesGroup/gose, github.com/eclipse-keypont/gose, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.0-rc4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/eclipse-keypont/gose/security/advisories/GHSA-xx6h-2jgg-93m2

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