GHSA-c3hm-hxwf-g5c6

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c3hm-hxwf-g5c6
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/05/GHSA-c3hm-hxwf-g5c6/GHSA-c3hm-hxwf-g5c6.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-c3hm-hxwf-g5c6
Aliases
Published
2024-05-03T19:34:07Z
Modified
2024-05-20T15:42:04.574450Z
Severity
  • 2.5 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
vodozemac has degraded secret zeroization capabilities
Details

Versions 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 of vodozemac have degraded secret zeroization capabilities, due to changes in third-party cryptographic dependencies (the Dalek crates), which moved secret zeroization capabilities behind a feature flag while vodozemac disabled the default feature set.

Impact

The degraded zeroization capabilities could result in the production of more memory copies of encryption secrets and secrets could linger in memory longer than necessary. This marginally increases the risk of sensitive data exposure.

Overall, we consider the impact of this issue to be low. Although cryptographic best practices recommend the clearing of sensitive information from memory once it's no longer needed, the inherent limitations of Rust regarding absolute zeroization reduce the practical severity of this lapse.

Patches

The patch is in commit https://github.com/matrix-org/vodozemac/pull/130/commits/297548cad4016ce448c4b5007c54db7ee39489d9.

Workarounds

None.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory please email us at security at matrix.org.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-05-03T10:15:08Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1188"
    ],
    "severity": "LOW",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-05-03T19:34:07Z"
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / vodozemac

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.5.0
Fixed
0.6.0