GHSA-94hh-pjjg-rwmr

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GHSA-94hh-pjjg-rwmr

Summary: Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose-browser-runtime

Details: ### Impact [AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7518#section-5.2) (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block). ### Patches A patch was released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `>=3.11.4`. Users should upgrade to `^3.11.4`. ### Credits Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.

References: https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-94hh-pjjg-rwmr, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29444, https://github.com/panva/jose, https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose-browser-runtime