Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 8.2 CVE-2026-21900 EUVD-2026-1894

CryptoLib Has Out-of-Bounds Read in KMC Encrypt Metadata Parsing via Flawed strtok Pattern

Published Jan 10, 2026 · Updated Jan 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

CryptoLib provides a software-only solution using the CCSDS Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures (SDLS-EP) to secure communications between a spacecraft running the core Flight System (cFS) and a ground station. Prior to version 1.4.3, an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in cryptography_encrypt() occurs when parsing JSON metadata from KMC server responses. The flawed strtok iteration pattern uses ptr + strlen(ptr) + 1 which reads one byte past allocated buffer boundaries when processing short or malformed metadata strings. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nasa CryptoLib < 1.4.3 —

References