golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa uses insufficiently random values
Overview
Source
ID
GHSA-r5c5-pr8j-pfp7
Aliases
CVE-2019-11840
GO-2022-0209
Affected package
Description
An issue was discovered in supplementary Go cryptography libraries, aka golang-googlecode-go-crypto, before 2019-03-20. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa. If more than 256 GiB of keystream is generated, or if the counter otherwise grows greater than 32 bits, the amd64 implementation will first generate incorrect output, and then cycle back to previously generated keystream. Repeated keystream bytes can lead to loss of confidentiality in encryption applications, or to predictability in CSPRNG applications.
### Specific Go Packages Affected golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa
Impact
Severity
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5.9 MODERATE
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Summary
8.79k
Total packages affected
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Packages with at least one version that is affected by the advisory or has an affected dependency.
2.25k
Packages with a known fix
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Packages with versions affected by the advisory that have a greater version that is not affected.
0.66%
Total ecosystem affected
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Affected Version: Introduced: 0, Fixed: 0.0.0-20190320223903-b7391e95e576
Patched/Unaffected
Affected