CVE-2026-13758
CryptX versions before 0.088_001 for Perl compare AEAD authentication tags in non-constant time in the streaming decrypt_done path
Vexday Risk Score
8Baixo
Decisão SSVC (CISA)
Track
Sem sinal de exploração → monitorar
CVSS 3.7EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado
Ciclo de vida
29 jun 2026Publicada no NVD
Recomendação: Monitorar — sem sinal de exploração no momento.
CryptX versions before 0.088_001 for Perl compare AEAD authentication tags in non-constant time in the streaming decrypt_done path.
The decrypt_done($tag) form compares it against the computed tag with memNE (memcmp() != 0), which short-circuits on the first differing byte, so its run time depends on the number of matching leading bytes. This affects all five AEAD modes: GCM, CCM, ChaCha20Poly1305, EAX and OCB. The one-shot *_decrypt_verify helpers are unaffected; they verify the tag inside libtomcrypt with a constant-time comparison.
The timing difference is a tag-verification oracle. An attacker who can submit many candidate tags for the same nonce, ciphertext and associated data while measuring the timing precisely enough may recover the expected tag byte by byte and forge a message that verifies.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Produtos afetados
MIK · CryptX