AEAD, Subtle API
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- Affected Versions
- Tink C++ 1.0 - 1.3.x
- Affected Key Types
- Subtle API, AES-CTR-HMAC and EncryptThenAuthenticate.
Description
Before Version 1.4.0, AES-CTR-HMAC-AEAD keys and the EncryptThenAuthenticate
subtle implementation may be vulnerable to chosen-ciphertext attacks.
An attacker can generate ciphertexts that bypass the HMAC verification if and
only if all of the following conditions are true:
- Tink C++ is used on systems where
size_t is a 32-bit integer. This is
usually the case on 32-bit machines.
- The attacker can specify long (>= 2^29 bytes or ~536MB) associated data.
This issue was reported by Quan Nguyen of Snap security team.
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Last updated 2024-11-14 UTC.
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