CVE-2022-35928

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-35928

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-35928.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-35928

Aliases

GHSA-r7fv-72pg-fwrq

Published

2022-08-03T19:25:12Z

Modified

2026-10-21T02:49:15Z

Severity

8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

AES Crypt for Linux Password Security Vulnerability

Details

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.

Database specific

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    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-120"
    ],
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    "unresolved_ranges":  [
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                    "range":  [
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                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "= 3.11"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy":  "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/paulej/aescrypt

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/paulej/aescrypt

Events

Introduced

Last Affected

68761851b

Database specific

Show details

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                {
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                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "68761851b"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-35928.json"