RUSTSEC-2026-0211 json
Non-constant time Authentication Tag Check in AES-GCM Decryption
published 3mo ago modified 3mo ago
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Summary
AES-GCM decryption used an implementation for checking the provided authentication tag against the recomputed authentication tag that was intended to be constant-time, but resulted in non-constant-time code generation in certain circumstances. Note that `libcrux-aesgcm` does not give guarantees on constant-time code generation and possible mitigations must be considered on a best-effort basis.
## Impact Users of `libcrux-aesgcm` that expose a decryption oracle to an attacker, which allows repeatedly querying for the same ciphertext were at risk from timing side-channel attacks, depending on their compilation environment. In the worst case, this could lead to recovery of the recomputed authentication tag by the attacker, which enables ciphertext forgery.
## Mitigation Starting from version `0.0.9` (published as `libcrux-aes@v0.0.9`), AES-GCM decryption uses a different, best-effort constant-time implementation of the tag check, which has been checked to reliably lead to constant time code generation, at the moment.
Patch / fix
- github.com/celabshq/libcrux#1528 pull request
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| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
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| crates.io | libcrux-aesgcm | >=0.0.0-0 |
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