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MEDIUM5.3

GHSA-2q89-485c-9j2x

Improper random reading in CIRCL

Quick fix

GHSA-2q89-485c-9j2x — github.com/cloudflare/circl: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get github.com/cloudflare/circl@v1.3.3

Details

### Impact When sampling randomness for a shared secret, the implementation of Kyber and FrodoKEM, did not check whether `crypto/rand.Read()` returns an error. In rare deployment cases (error thrown by the `Read()` function), this could lead to a predictable shared secret.

The tkn20 and blindrsa components did not check whether enough randomness was returned from the user provided randomness source. Typically the user provides `crypto/rand.Reader`, which in the vast majority of cases will always return the right number random bytes. In the cases where it does not, or the user provides a source that does not, the blinding for blindrsa is weak and integrity of the plaintext is not ensured in tkn20.

### Patches The fix was introduced in CIRCL v. 1.3.3

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Affected packages

Go/github.com/cloudflare/circl
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.3.3
Fixgo get github.com/cloudflare/circl@v1.3.3

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