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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2023-1732 EUVD-2023-1452GHSA-2q89-485c-9j2xGO-2023-1765

Improper random reading in CIRCL

Published May 10, 2023 · Updated Jan 27, 2025 · Assigned by cloudflare

Description

When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether crypto/rand.Read() returns an error. In rare deployment cases (error thrown by the Read() function), this could lead to a predictable shared secret.

The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not check whether enough randomness was returned from the user provided randomness source. Typically the user provides crypto/rand.Reader, which in the vast majority of cases will always return the right number random bytes. In the cases where it does not, or the user provides a source that does not, the blinding for blindrsa is weak and integrity of the plaintext is not ensured in tkn20.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cloudflare CIRCL < <1.3.3 <1.3.3

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed velociraptor 0.7.0.4.git142.862ef23-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling aactl 0.4.12-r7 —
Wolfi rolling pulumi-language-java 0.9.3-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/cloudflare/circl < 1.3.3 1.3.3 GHSA-2q89-485c-9j2x

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