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Security checkMarch 26, 2023

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

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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

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