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CVE-2022-35928 (GCVE-0-2022-35928)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-03 19:25 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:54
VLAI
Title
AES Crypt for Linux Password Security Vulnerability
Summary
AES Crypt is a file encryption software for multiple platforms. AES Crypt for Linux built using the source on GitHub and having the version number 3.11 has a vulnerability with respect to reading user-provided passwords and confirmations via command-line prompts. Passwords lengths were not checked before being read. This vulnerability may lead to buffer overruns. This does _not_ affect source code found on aescrypt.com, nor is the vulnerability present when providing a password or a key via the `-p` or `-k` command-line options. The problem was fixed via in commit 68761851b and will be included in release 3.16. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should us the `-p` or `-k` options to provide a password or key.
Severity
8.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
2 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/paulej/AESCrypt/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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