CVE-2024-36121 — netty-incubator-codec-ohttp's BoringSSLAEADContext Repeats Nonces
netty-incubator-codec-ohttp is the OHTTP implementation for netty. BoringSSLAEADContext keeps track of how many OHTTP responses have been sent and uses this sequence number to …
Published: 2024-06-04 · CVSS: 5.9 · CVSS 3.1
netty-incubator-codec-ohttp is the OHTTP implementation for netty. BoringSSLAEADContext keeps track of how many OHTTP responses have been sent and uses this sequence number to calculate the appropriate nonce to use with the encryption algorithm. Unfortunately, two separate errors combine which would allow an attacker to cause the sequence number to overflow and thus the nonce to repeat.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7