CVE-2023-46129

2023-10-3013:43:21

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nkeys

encryption

flaw

buffer

mutation

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

20.7%

JSON

A flaw was found in nkeys. The nkeys library’s “xkeys” encryption handling logic, mistakenly passed an array by value into an internal function, where the function mutated that buffer to populate the encryption key to use. As a result, all encryption was using an all-zeros key.