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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXEzZ2gtNXI5OC1qNGgz

RSA-PSS signature validation vulnerability by prepending zeros in jsrsasign

Impact

Jsrsasign can verify RSA-PSS signature which value can expressed as BigInteger. When there is a valid RSA-PSS signature value, this vulnerability is also accept value with prepending zeros as a valid signature.

If you are not use RSA-PSS signature validation, this vulnerability is not affected.
Risk to accept a forged or crafted message to be signed is low.
Risk to raise memory corruption is low since jsrsasign uses BigInteger class.

Patches

Users using RSA-PSS signature validation should upgrade to 8.0.17.

Workarounds

Reject RSA-PSS signatures with unnecessary prepending zeros.

References

https://github.com/kjur/jsrsasign/security/advisories/GHSA-q3gh-5r98-j4h3
https://github.com/kjur/jsrsasign/issues/438
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14968
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14968
https://vuldb.com/?id.157125
https://kjur.github.io/jsrsasign/api/symbols/RSAKey.html#.verifyWithMessageHashPSS

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3gh-5r98-j4h3
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: almost 4 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-q3gh-5r98-j4h3, CVE-2020-14968
References:

Repository: https://github.com/kjur/jsrsasign
Blast Radius: 38.3

Affected Packages

npm:jsrsasign

Dependent packages: 731
Dependent repositories: 8,042
Downloads: 1,744,540 last month
Affected Version Ranges: >= 3.0.0, < 8.0.16
Fixed in: 8.0.17
All affected versions: 4.8.2, 4.8.3, 4.8.4, 4.8.5, 4.8.6, 4.9.0, 4.9.1, 4.9.2, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9, 5.0.10, 5.0.11, 5.0.12, 5.0.13, 5.0.14, 5.0.15, 5.1.0, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.5, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.0.11, 8.0.12, 8.0.13, 8.0.14, 8.0.15
All unaffected versions: 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 8.0.16, 8.0.17, 8.0.18, 8.0.19, 8.0.20, 8.0.21, 8.0.22, 8.0.23, 8.0.24, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.1.7, 9.1.8, 9.1.9, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5, 10.1.0, 10.1.1, 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4, 10.1.5, 10.1.6, 10.1.7, 10.1.8, 10.1.9, 10.1.10, 10.1.11, 10.1.12, 10.1.13, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.3.2, 10.4.0, 10.4.1, 10.5.0, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, 10.5.5, 10.5.6, 10.5.7, 10.5.8, 10.5.9, 10.5.10, 10.5.11, 10.5.12, 10.5.13, 10.5.14, 10.5.15, 10.5.16, 10.5.17, 10.5.18, 10.5.19, 10.5.20, 10.5.21, 10.5.22, 10.5.23, 10.5.24, 10.5.25, 10.5.26, 10.5.27, 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.7.0, 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2, 10.8.3, 10.8.4, 10.8.5, 10.8.6, 10.9.0, 11.0.0, 11.1.0