CVE-2023-43637

Vault Key Partially Predetermined

Published Sep 21, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description

Due to the implementation of "deriveVaultKey", prior to version 7.10, the generated vault key
would always have the last 16 bytes predetermined to be "arfoobarfoobarfo".

This issue happens because "deriveVaultKey" calls "retrieveCloudKey" (which will always
return "foobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfo" as the key), and then merges the 32byte
randomly generated key with this key (by takeing 16bytes from each, see "mergeKeys").

This makes the key a lot weaker.

This issue does not persist in devices that were initialized on/after version 7.10, but devices
that were initialized before that and updated to a newer version still have this issue.



Roll an update that enforces the full 32bytes key usage.






Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-48037 Due to the implementation of "deriveVaultKey", prior to version 7.10, the generated vault key would always have the last 16 bytes predetermined to be "arfoobarfoobarfo". This issue happens because "deriveVaultKey" calls "retrieveCloudKey" (which will always return "foobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfo" as the key), and then merges the 32byte randomly generated key with this key (by takeing 16bytes from each, see "mergeKeys"). This makes the key a lot weaker. This issue does not persist in devices that were initialized on/after version 7.10, but devices that were initialized before that and updated to a newer version still have this issue. Roll an update that enforces the full 32bytes key usage.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g7vp-j25f-h34p EVE Has Partially Predetermined Vault Key
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linuxfoundation
Linuxfoundation edge Virtualization Engine
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linuxfoundation:edge_virtualization_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linuxfoundation
Linuxfoundation edge Virtualization Engine
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
ASRG
Published
Updated
Sep 24, 2024, 5:48 PM
Reserved
Sep 20, 2023, 2:34 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 21, 2023, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:26 AM