Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
CVE-2017-12973
Summary
Nimbus JOSE+JWT before 4.39 proceeds improperly after detection of an invalid HMAC in authenticated AES-CBC decryption, which allows attackers to conduct a padding oracle attack.
- HIGH
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- LOW
- NONE
CWE-354 - Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
The software does not validate or incorrectly validates the integrity check values or "checksums" of a message. This may prevent it from detecting if the data has been modified or corrupted in transmission.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published
