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Medium · 4.7 CVE-2023-42811 EUVD-2023-2411GHSA-423w-p2w9-r7vqRUSTSEC-2023-0096

AEADs/aes-gcm: Plaintext exposed in decrypt_in_place_detached even on tag verification failure

Published Sep 22, 2023 · Updated Jun 18, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

aes-gcm is a pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM. Starting in version 0.10.0 and prior to version 0.10.3, in the AES GCM implementation of decrypt_in_place_detached, the decrypted ciphertext (i.e. the correct plaintext) is exposed even if tag verification fails. If a program using the `aes-gcm` crate's `decrypt_in_place*` APIs accesses the buffer after decryption failure, it will contain a decryption of an unauthenticated input. Depending on the specific nature of the program this may enable Chosen Ciphertext Attacks (CCAs) which can cause a catastrophic breakage of the cipher including full plaintext recovery. Version 0.10.3 contains a fix for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
RustCrypto AEADs >= 0.10.0, < 0.10.3 —

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
SLES 15 SP5 rage-encryption 0.9.2+0-150500.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4060-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed shadowsocks-rust 1.16.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13315-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 rage-encryption 0.9.2+0-150500.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4060-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io aes-gcm >= 0.10.0, < 0.10.3 0.10.3 GHSA-423w-p2w9-r7vq

Advisories 2

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