Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose-browser-runtime

Description

AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed JWEDecryptionFailed would be thrown.

Recommendation

Update the jose-browser-runtime package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 3.11.4
• Patched version(s): 3.11.4

References

• GHSA-94hh-pjjg-rwmr
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2021-29444
• CWE-203
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

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• Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose - CVE-2021-29443
• angular vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking - CVE-2024-21490

Tags:

npm

jose-browser-runtime