CVE-2020-7226: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

January 24, 2020 (updated December 8, 2021)

CiphertextHeader.java allows attackers to trigger excessive memory allocation during a decode operation, because the nonce array length associated with new byte may depend on untrusted input within the header of encoded data.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7226

Code Behaviors & Features

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