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CVE-2020-7226CiphertextHeader.java in Cryptacular 1.2.3, as used in Apereo CAS and other products, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
CiphertextHeader.java in Cryptacular 1.2.3, as used in Apereo CAS and other products, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory allocation during a decode operation, because the nonce array length associated with "new byte" may depend on untrusted input within the header of encoded data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.cryptacular:cryptacularGHSA-x64g-4xx9-fh6x (opens in a new tab)
References
References19
- [ws-dev] 20200219 [jira] [Created] (WSS-665) Add cryptacular dependency and upgrade to 1.2.4 to fix CVE-2020-7226 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [ws-commits] 20200219 [ws-wss4j] branch 2_2_x-fixes updated: WSS-665 - Add cryptacular dependency and upgrade to 1.2.4 to fix CVE-2020-7226 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [ws-dev] 20200219 [jira] [Resolved] (WSS-665) Add cryptacular dependency and upgrade to 1.2.4 to fix CVE-2020-7226 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [ws-commits] 20200219 [ws-wss4j] branch master updated: WSS-665 - Add cryptacular dependency and upgrade to 1.2.4 to fix CVE-2020-7226 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [ws-dev] 20200318 [jira] [Closed] (WSS-665) Add cryptacular dependency and upgrade to 1.2.4 to fix CVE-2020-7226 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomee-commits] 20201013 [jira] [Created] (TOMEE-2908) TomEE plus is affected by CVE-2020-7226 (BDSA-2020-2333) vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomee-commits] 20201013 [jira] [Assigned] (TOMEE-2908) TomEE plus is affected by CVE-2020-7226 (BDSA-2020-2333) vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomee-commits] 20210426 [jira] [Commented] (TOMEE-2908) TomEE plus is affected by CVE-2020-7226 (BDSA-2020-2333) vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomee-commits] 20210426 [jira] [Updated] (TOMEE-2908) TomEE plus is affected by CVE-2020-7226 (BDSA-2020-2333) vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [tomee-commits] 20210426 [jira] [Comment Edited] (TOMEE-2908) TomEE plus is affected by CVE-2020-7226 (BDSA-2020-2333) vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/vt-middleware/cryptacular/blob/master/src/main/java/org/cryptacular/CiphertextHeader.java#L153 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/vt-middleware/cryptacular/issues/52 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/vt-middleware/cryptacular/blob/fafccd07ab1214e3588a35afe3c361519129605f/src/main/java/org/cryptacular/CiphertextHeader.java#L153 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/apereo/cas/pull/4685 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/apereo/cas/commit/8810f2b6c71d73341d4dde6b09a18eb46cfd6d45 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/apereo/cas/commit/93b1c3e9d90e36a19d0fa0f6efb863c6f0235e75 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/apereo/cas/commit/a042808d6adbbf44753d52c55cac5f533e24101f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0522 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x64g-4xx9-fh6x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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