GHSA-6cr6-fmvc-vw2pHighCVSS 7.7

Noise vulnerable to denial of service

Published
December 28, 2022
Last Modified
February 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Noise is a Go implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework. 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/flynn/noise:< 1.0.0

🔗 References (5)