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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXd2cHYtZmZjdi1yNmN3

Internal NCryptDecrypt method could be used externally from WindowsHello library.

Impact

Every user of the library before version 1.0.4.

Patches

Patched in 1.0.4+.

Workarounds

None.

References

https://github.com/SeppPenner/WindowsHello/issues/3

For more information

It this library is used to encrypt text and write the output to a txt file, another executable could be able to decrypt the text using the static method NCryptDecrypt from this same library without the need to use Windows Hello Authentication again.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: over 4 years ago
Updated: almost 2 years ago

CVSS Score: 5.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Percentage: 0.00044
EPSS Percentile: 0.13516

Identifiers: GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw, CVE-2020-11005
References:

• https://github.com/SeppPenner/WindowsHello/security/advisories/GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw
• https://github.com/SeppPenner/WindowsHello/issues/3
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11005
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw

Repository: https://github.com/SeppPenner/WindowsHello
Blast Radius: 1.0

Affected Packages