Missing Cryptographic Step in cassproject

Description

CaSS Library, (npm:cassproject) has a missing cryptographic step when storing cryptographic keys that can allow a server administrator access to an account’s cryptographic keys. This affects CaSS servers using standalone username/password authentication, which uses a method that expects e2e cryptographic security of authorization credentials.

Recommendation

Update the cassproject package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.5.8
• Patched version(s): 1.5.8

References

• GHSA-7qcx-4p32-qcmx
• CVE-2022-29229
• CWE-325
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A2
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

cassproject