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CVE-2026-55967

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Description

AES-GCM encryption/decryption with extremely large cumulative single message sizes (>64 GiB) were not properly rejected by the streaming APIs, allowing counter wrap, keystream reuse, and consequent plaintext recovery.

Severity
LOW
CVSS score
2.0 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-25 18:16:41.330000
Last modified
2026-10-24 13:10:00.147000
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  "published": "2026-06-25T18:16:41.330",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T13:10:00.147",
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      "value": "El cifrado/descifrado AES-GCM con tamaños de mensaje único acumulativos extremadamente grandes (>64 GiB) no fue rechazado correctamente por las API de streaming, permitiendo el desbordamiento del contador, la reutilización de la secuencia de claves y la consiguiente recuperación del texto sin cifrar."
    }
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