CVE-2026-21899 PUBLISHED

CryptoLib has an out-of-bounds read and crash vulnerability when decoding an empty Base64url string

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.01.2026 Published: 10.01.2026 Updated: 12.01.2026

CryptoLib provides a software-only solution using the CCSDS Space Data Link Security Protocol - Extended Procedures (SDLS-EP) to secure communications between a spacecraft running the core Flight System (cFS) and a ground station. Prior to version 1.4.3, in base64urlDecode, padding-stripping dereferences input[inputLen - 1] before checking that inputLen > 0 or that input != NULL. For inputLen == 0, this becomes an OOB read at input[-1], potentially crashing the process. If input == NULL and inputLen == 0, it dereferences NULL - 1. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.3.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.7

Product Status

Vendor nasa
Product CryptoLib
Versions
  • Version < 1.4.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE