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CVE-2021-4239: Noise vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption

December 28, 2022 (updated December 29, 2022)

The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-6cr6-fmvc-vw2p
  • github.com/flynn/noise/commit/2499bf1bad239a8316c32932a993642350b3afdb
  • github.com/flynn/noise/pull/44
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4239
  • pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0425

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.0.0

Fixed versions

  • v1.0.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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Source file

go/github.com/flynn/noise/CVE-2021-4239.yml

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