Libkcapi: iv reuse in libkcapi one-shot symmetric cipher chunking causes cipher state reset across chunk boundaries
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Stephan Muelle | libkcapi | unaffected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — | ||||||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — | ||||||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | affected | — |
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Vendor Workaround
To mitigate this issue, applications using `libkcapi` should avoid the one-shot symmetric cipher APIs for inputs exceeding 64 KiB when continuous-message semantics are critical. Instead, prefer the streaming interface for processing large messages, or ensure one-shot inputs remain below the internal chunking threshold to guarantee the IV is applied consistently throughout the operation.
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.345% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5 |
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| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6::baseos | |
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| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | |
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Redhat enterprise Linux Eus
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| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos |
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| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | |
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Smuellerdd
Smuellerdd libkcapi |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:hardened_images:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:smuellerdd:libkcapi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Smuellerdd
Smuellerdd libkcapi |
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Redhat hardened Images
Redhat openshift Container Platform |
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Redhat openshift Container Platform |
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| Description | A flaw was found in libkcapi. When performing one-shot symmetric cipher operations on large inputs (over 64 KiB) in stateful modes such as Counter (CTR) or Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), the library improperly reuses the Initialization Vector (IV) for each internal data chunk. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this by making an application that uses libkcapi process specially crafted large inputs. This can lead to a significant weakening of data confidentiality, as the repeated IV use can expose relationships in encrypted plaintext, and may also affect data integrity by causing incorrect cryptographic processing. | |
| Title | Libkcapi: iv reuse in libkcapi one-shot symmetric cipher chunking causes cipher state reset across chunk boundaries | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat hummingbird Redhat openshift |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-330 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat hummingbird Redhat openshift |
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cvssV3_1
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