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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.5

CVE-2024-21530 json

Duplicate Advisory: cocoon Reuses a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption

published 2023-10-15 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6878-6wc2-pf5h , GHSA-r2jw-c95q-rj29 , RUSTSEC-2023-0068 , EUVD-2024-3124

cvss
4.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Versions of the package cocoon before 0.4.0 are vulnerable to Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption when the encrypt, wrap, and dump functions are sequentially called. An attacker can generate the same ciphertext by creating a new encrypted message with the same cocoon object. **Note:** The issue does NOT affect objects created with Cocoon::new which utilizes ThreadRng.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io cocoon 0.4.0
  • n/a cocoon 0.4.0
  • cocoon cocoon 0.4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:P
CNA 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io cocoon
<0.4.0
>=0.0.0-0, <0.4.0
0.4.0

Affected products

  • n/a cocoon
  • cocoon cocoon

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-323 Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.