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Integer Overflow or Wraparound and Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in bcrypt

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 20, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

npm bcrypt (npm)

Affected versions

< 5.0.0

Patched versions

5.0.0

Description

In bcrypt (npm package) before version 5.0.0, data is truncated wrong when its length is greater than 255 bytes.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 1, 2020
Reviewed Aug 20, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 20, 2020
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

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
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.124%
(48th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-7689

GHSA ID

GHSA-5wg4-74h6-q47v

Source code

No known source code
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