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CVE

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-75803

Issue summary: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-OCB decryption with an empty ciphertext can report success without verifying the supplied authentication tag when the operation is finalized by calling the EVP...
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CVE

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-75803

Issue summary: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-OCB decryption with an empty ciphertext can report success without verifying the supplied authentication tag when the operation is finalized by calling the EVP...

Issue summary: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-OCB decryption with an empty ciphertext can report success without verifying the supplied authentication tag when the operation is finalized by calling the EVPCipher() function.  Impact summary: Applications calling EVPCipher() on an empty ciphertext and expecting the call to check the AEAD tag may accept forged messages.  CWE: CWE-354 (Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value)  Description: The EVP_Cipher() API call for AEAD ciphers behaves like a one shot encryption and decryption call. It also verifies the AEAD tag after the decryption operation. However for AES-OCB and ChaCha20-Poly1305 ciphers it skipped the AEAD tag verification when an empty ciphertext was passed to the function. The callers of this function might believe that a successful return indicates a valid AEAD tag for these ciphers, even when that has not truly been validated in this case.  FIPS impact: no The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this CVE as the affected algorithms are not FIPS approved and thus not implemented in the FIPS module.

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CVSS Version

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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-75803

Severity

9.1

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
9.1
EPSS Probability
0%
EPSS Percentile
0%
Introduced Version
0
Fix Available
3.0.22-1~deb12u1,3.5.7-1~deb13u2,3.6.4-1

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