CVE-2019-16143 is a critical vulnerability affecting the blake2 crate for Rust, specifically versions prior to 0.8.1. It causes the BLAKE2b and BLAKE2s algorithms to produce incorrect HMAC results due to improperly sized blocks. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:blake2:blake2-rust:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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