RUSTSEC-2021-0125 (CVE-2021-45711)
Vulnerability from osv_rustsec – Published: 2021-11-14 12:00 – Updated: 2023-06-13 13:10 – Source websiteVersion 0.6.0 of the simple_asn1 crate panics on certain malformed
inputs to its parsing functions, including from_der and der_decode.
Because this crate is frequently used with inputs from the network, this
should be considered a security vulnerability.
The issue occurs when parsing the old ASN.1 "UTCTime" time format. If an
attacker provides a UTCTime where the first character is ASCII but the
second character is above 0x7f, a string slice operation in the
from_der_ function will try to slice into the middle of a UTF-8
character, and cause a panic.
This error was introduced in commit
d7d39d709577710e9dc8,
which updated simple_asn1 to use time instead of chrono because of
RUSTSEC-2020-159.
Versions of simple_asn1 before 0.6.0 are not affected by this issue.
The patch was applied in
simple_asn1 version 0.6.1.
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"affected": [
{
"database_specific": {
"categories": [
"denial-of-service"
],
"cvss": null,
"informational": null
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"affected_functions": null,
"affects": {
"arch": [],
"functions": [],
"os": []
}
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "crates.io",
"name": "simple_asn1",
"purl": "pkg:cargo/simple_asn1"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0.6.0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.6.1"
}
],
"type": "SEMVER"
}
],
"versions": []
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-45711",
"GHSA-3m6f-3gfg-4x56",
"GHSA-g4h2-4wvh-grc5"
],
"database_specific": {
"license": "CC0-1.0"
},
"details": "Version 0.6.0 of the `simple_asn1` crate panics on certain malformed\ninputs to its parsing functions, including `from_der` and `der_decode`.\nBecause this crate is frequently used with inputs from the network, this\nshould be considered a security vulnerability.\n\nThe issue occurs when parsing the old ASN.1 \"UTCTime\" time format. If an\nattacker provides a UTCTime where the first character is ASCII but the\nsecond character is above 0x7f, a string slice operation in the\n`from_der_` function will try to slice into the middle of a UTF-8\ncharacter, and cause a panic.\n\nThis error was introduced in commit\n[`d7d39d709577710e9dc8`](https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1/commit/d7d39d709577710e9dc8833ee57d200eef366db8),\nwhich updated `simple_asn1` to use `time` instead of `chrono` because of\n[`RUSTSEC-2020-159`](https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0159).\nVersions of `simple_asn1` before 0.6.0 are not affected by this issue.\n\nThe [patch](https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1/pull/28) was applied in\n`simple_asn1` version 0.6.1.",
"id": "RUSTSEC-2021-0125",
"modified": "2023-06-13T13:10:24Z",
"published": "2021-11-14T12:00:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://crates.io/crates/simple_asn1"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0125.html"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/acw/simple_asn1/issues/27"
}
],
"related": [],
"severity": [],
"summary": "Panic on incorrect date input to `simple_asn1`"
}
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