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Flagged Crypto.java Security vulnerability #268

Description

@amsmokefree

Spotted this during a routine penetration testing exercise

This class: com/pubnub/api/vendor/Crypto.java

Potential Issues

  1. Configuration is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks : Encryption mode CBC with PKCS5/PKCS7 padding
  2. MD5 is also a weak hash known to have hash collisions.

The following algorithms are recommended:

Confidentiality algorithms: AES-GCM-256 or ChaCha20-Poly1305
Integrity algorithms: SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Blake2, the SHA-3 family
Digital signature algorithms: RSA (3072 bits and higher), ECDSA with NIST P-384
Key establishment algorithms: RSA (3072 bits and higher), DH (3072 bits or higher), ECDH with NIST P-384

Activity

  1. changed the title [-]Potential Crypto.java Security vulnerability[/-] [+]Flagged Crypto.java Security vulnerability[/+] on Feb 21, 2023
  2. marcin-cebo commented on Sep 22, 2023

    @marcin-cebo
    Contributor

    Hi,

    thank you for those informations. We don't have "oracle" since this is End-to-End encryption. As it comes to MD5 this method is not used. We are going to remove it in next release though to avoid confusion.

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