CVE-2020-11005: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

April 14, 2020 (updated April 22, 2020)

The WindowsHello has a vulnerability where encrypted data could potentially be decrypted without needing authentication. If the library is used to encrypt text and write the output to a txt file, another executable could be able to decrypt the text using the static method NCryptDecrypt from this same library without the need to use Windows Hello Authentication again.

References

github.com/SeppPenner/WindowsHello/issues/3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11005

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