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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 27, 2022· Updated Apr 14, 2025

Weak encryption and denial of service in github.com/flynn/noise

CVE-2021-4239

Description

The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/flynn/noiseGo
< 1.0.01.0.0

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