CVE-2024-28864
[TagAwareCipher] - Decryption Failure (Regex Match)
Impact
### Impact Vulnerability in **SecureProps** involves a regex failing to detect tags during decryption of encrypted data. This occurs when the encrypted data has been encoded with `NullEncoder` and passed to `TagAwareCipher`, and contains special characters such as `\n`. As a result, the decryption process is skipped since the tags are not detected. This causes the encrypted data to be returned in plain format. The vulnerability affects users who implement `TagAwareCipher` with any base cipher that has `NullEncoder` (not default). ### Patches The patch for the issue has been released. Users are advised to update to version **1.2.2**. ### Workarounds **The main recommendation is to update to the latest version as there are no breaking changes.** If that's not possible, you can use the default `Base64Encoder` with the base cipher decorated with `TagAwareCipher` to prevent special characters in the encrypted string from interfering with regex tag detection logic. This workaround is safe but may involve double encoding since `TagAwareCipher` uses `Base64Encoder` by default. ### References Reported issue: https://github.com/IlicMiljan/Secure-Props/issues/20 Pull request resolving bug: https://github.com/IlicMiljan/Secure-Props/pull/21
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| composer | ilicmiljan/secure-props | >= 1.2.0, < 1.2.2 | 1.2.2 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ilicmiljan | Secureprops | Versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/IlicMiljan/Secure-Props/commit/ab7b561040cd37fda3dbf9a6cab01fefcaa16627
- https://github.com/IlicMiljan/Secure-Props/issues/20
- https://github.com/IlicMiljan/Secure-Props/pull/21
- https://github.com/IlicMiljan/Secure-Props/security/advisories/GHSA-rj29-j2g4-77q8
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rj29-j2g4-77q8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28864