Incorrect Comparison in sodiumoxide · CVE-2019-25002 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Incorrect Comparison in sodiumoxide

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 25, 2023

Package

sodiumoxide (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0.2.0, < 0.2.5

Patched versions

0.2.5

Description

An issue was discovered in the sodiumoxide crate starting with 0.2.0 and prior to 0.2.5 for Rust. generichash::Digest::eq compares itself to itself and thus has degenerate security properties.

References

Reviewed Aug 19, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021

Last updated Aug 25, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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