GHSA-cwh5-3cw7-4286HighCVSS 5.9

tlslite-ng off-by-one error on mac checking

Published
July 12, 2018
Last Modified
November 13, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

tlslite-ng version 0.7.3 and earlier, since commit d7b288316bca7bcdd082e6ccff5491e241305233 contains a CWE-354: Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value vulnerability in TLS implementation, tlslite/utils/constanttime.py: ct_check_cbc_mac_and_pad(); line end_pos = data_len - 1 - mac.digest_size that can result in an attacker manipulating the TLS ciphertext which will not be detected by receiving tlslite-ng. This attack appears to be exploitable via man in the middle on a network connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed after commit 3674815d1b0f7484454995e2737a352e0a6a93d8.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/tlslite-ng:< 0.7.4

🔗 References (6)