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GHSA-2q89-485c-9j2x

Improper random reading in CIRCL

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-1732

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/cloudflare/circl < 1.3.3 1.3.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether `crypto/rand.Read()` returns an error. In rare deployment cases (error thrown by the `Read()` function), this could lead to a predictable shared secret. The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not check whether enough randomness was returned from the user provided randomness source. Typically the user provides `crypto/rand.Reader`, which in the vast majority of cases will always return the right number random bytes. In the cases where it does not, or the user provides a source that does not, the blinding for blindrsa is weak and integrity of the plaintext is not ensured in tkn20. ### Patches The fix was introduced in CIRCL v. 1.3.3

References

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