Cloak AES-CTR cipher lacks ciphertext authentication, allowing chosen-plaintext forgery by bit flipping
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Vendor Workaround
Configure the vault with Cloak.Ciphers.AES.GCM as the default cipher and re-encrypt existing values, for example with the cloak.migrate.ecto task from cloak_ecto. Then remove Cloak.Ciphers.AES.CTR and Cloak.Ciphers.Deprecated.AES.CTR from the vault configuration, so that ciphertext in the CTR format is no longer decrypted. AES-GCM authenticates the ciphertext and rejects modified values.
No CVSS v3.1
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.132% probability within 30 days)
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| Description | Reliance on Obfuscation or Encryption of Security-Relevant Inputs without Integrity Checking vulnerability in danielberkompas cloak allows an attacker with write access to stored ciphertext to make it decrypt to a chosen value via bit flipping. Cloak.Ciphers.AES.CTR encrypts with AES-256 in CTR mode and stores the key tag, the IV and the ciphertext with no MAC. decrypt/2 checks only the key tag and the minimum length before it returns the plaintext, and Cloak.Ciphers.Deprecated.AES.CTR decrypts the legacy format the same way. CTR is a stream cipher, so a value XORed into the stored ciphertext is XORed into the plaintext at the same offset. An attacker who can write to the encrypted store (for example through SQL injection or a compromised replica) and who knows or can guess a stored plaintext can replace it with any value of the same length. The application receives that value with no error. This issue affects cloak: from 0.1.0-pre onward. | |
| Title | Cloak AES-CTR cipher lacks ciphertext authentication, allowing chosen-plaintext forgery by bit flipping | |
| First Time appeared |
Danielberkompas
Danielberkompas cloak |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-649 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:danielberkompas:cloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Danielberkompas
Danielberkompas cloak |
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cvssV4_0
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