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RSA signature validation vulnerability on maleable encoded message in jsrsasign

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 13, 2021 in kjur/jsrsasign • Updated Sep 11, 2023

Package

npm jsrsasign (npm)

Affected versions

< 10.2.0

Patched versions

10.2.0

Description

Impact

Vulnerable jsrsasign will accept RSA signature with improper PKCS#1.5 padding.
Decoded RSA signature value consists following form:
01(ff...(8 or more ffs)...ff)00[ASN.1 OF DigestInfo]
Its byte length must be the same as RSA key length, however such checking was not sufficient.

To make crafted message for practical attack is very hard.

Patches

Users validating RSA signature should upgrade to 10.2.0 or later.

Workarounds

There is no workaround. Not to use RSA signature validation in jsrsasign.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thanks to Daniel Yahyazadeh @yahyazadeh for reporting and analyzing this vulnerability.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 7, 2021
@kjur kjur published to kjur/jsrsasign Apr 13, 2021
Reviewed Apr 13, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 16, 2021
Last updated Sep 11, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.135%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-30246

GHSA ID

GHSA-27fj-mc8w-j9wg

Source code

No known source code
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