GHSA-rvcw-f68w-8h8h
Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose-node-cjs-runtime
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | jose-node-cjs-runtime | < 3.11.4 | 3.11.4 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
[AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7518#section-5.2) (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block).
### Patches
A patch was released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `>=3.11.4`.
Users should upgrade to `^3.11.4`.
### Credits
Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.