The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.
References
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https://github.com/flynn/noise/pull/44 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0425 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Go
Published: 2022-12-27T21:13:53.590Z
Updated: 2023-06-12T19:04:19.549Z
Reserved: 2022-07-29T20:06:51.345Z
Link: CVE-2021-4239
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-12-27T22:15:12.123
Modified: 2023-01-06T01:30:52.057
Link: CVE-2021-4239
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