GHSA-4j9m-h44m-2hv8LowCVSS 1.9

Steeltoe: OAEP setting silently selects PKCS#1 v1.5 padding

Published
July 2, 2026
Last Modified
July 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Summary

Configuring encrypt:rsa:algorithm=OAEP does not enable OAEP encryption. Due to an incorrect BouncyCastle transformation string, the OAEP setting selects PKCS#1 v1.5, which is the same algorithm as the DEFAULT setting.

Impact

Operators who configure encrypt:rsa:algorithm=OAEP to obtain CCA2-secure padding receive PKCS#1 v1.5 instead. Currently, Decrypt() is called only against operator-controlled configuration data, so no exploitable path exists, but any future code path that exposes a decryption oracle would be Bleichenbacher-vulnerable despite the OAEP setting.

Migration note

Existing {cipher} values produced under the broken OAEP setting were encrypted with PKCS#1 v1.5. The fix makes OAEP use actual OAEP padding, so those values will fail to decrypt after upgrading. Re-encrypt all affected {cipher} values after upgrading.

🎯 Affected products1

  • nuget/Steeltoe.Configuration.Encryption:>= 4.0.0, <= 4.1.0

🔗 References (4)