CVE-2024-21530

CVSS 3.1 Score 4.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Oct 2, 2024
Updated: Oct 4, 2024
CWE ID 323

Summary

CVE-2024-21530 identifies a vulnerability in versions of the cocoon package prior to 0.4.0, affecting products such as zIOc55, zIS_ah, and zIOc56. The vulnerability allows an attacker to reuse a nonce and key pair in encryption, potentially leading to the generation of the same ciphertext when sequentially calling the encrypt, wrap, and dump functions. To remediate this issue, users are advised to upgrade to cocoon version 0.4.0 or later, which addresses this security flaw. Although the integrity and confidentiality impacts are rated as low, the exploitability score is medium with an attack complexity categorized as high. If exploited, this vulnerability could compromise data security within affected organizations by enabling unauthorized access to encrypted messages.

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