GHSA-65P9-R9H6-22VJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-03 20:09 – Updated: 2026-03-25 18:26
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Summary
AWS-LC has Timing Side-Channel in AES-CCM Tag Verification
Details

Summary

AWS-LC is an open-source, general-purpose cryptographic library.

Impact

Observable timing discrepancy in AES-CCM decryption in AWS-LC allows an unauthenticated user to potentially determine authentication tag validity via timing analysis.

The impacted implementations are through the EVP CIPHER API: EVP_aes_128_ccm, EVP_aes_192_ccm, and EVP_aes_256_ccm.

Customers of AWS services do not need to take action. aws-lc-sys and aws-lc-fips-sys contain code from AWS-LC. Applications using aws-lc-sys or aws-lc-fips-sys should upgrade to the most recent releases of aws-lc-sys or aws-lc-fips-sys.

Impacted versions:

  • aws-lc-sys versions: >= 0.14.0, < 0.38.0
  • aws-lc-fips-sys versions: >= v0.13.0, < 0.13.12.

Patches

The patch is included in aws-lc-sys v.0.38.0 and aws-lc-fips-sys v0.13.12.

Workarounds

In the special cases of using AES-CCM with (M=4, L=2), (M=8, L=2), or (M=16, L=2), applications can workaround this issue by using AES-CCM through the EVP AEAD API using implementations EVP_aead_aes_128_ccm_bluetooth, EVP_aead_aes_128_ccm_bluetooth_8, and, EVP_aead_aes_128_ccm_matter respectively.

Otherwise, there is no workaround and applications using aws-lc-sys or aws-lc-fips-sys should upgrade to the most recent releases of aws-lc-sys or aws-lc-fips-sys.

Resources

If there are any questions or comments about this advisory, contact [AWS/Amazon] Security via thevulnerability reporting page or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

Acknowledgement

AWS-LC would like to thank Joshua Rogers (https://joshua.hu/) for collaborating on this issue through the coordinated vulnerability disclosure process.

Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
8.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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  "id": "GHSA-65p9-r9h6-22vj",
  "modified": "2026-03-25T18:26:08Z",
  "published": "2026-03-03T20:09:25Z",
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      "url": "https://github.com/aws/aws-lc/security/advisories/GHSA-frmv-5gcm-jwxh"
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      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-005-AWS"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0043.html"
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  "summary": "AWS-LC has Timing Side-Channel in AES-CCM Tag Verification"
}


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