Vulnerability · Published Apr 27, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2025-46673

Medium 4.9

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in CryptoLib from NASA. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 56.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

NASA CryptoLib before 1.3.2 does not check whether the SA is in an operational state before use, possibly leading to a bypass of the Space Data Link Security protocol (SDLS).

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NASA CryptoLib 0 – before 1.3.2

Weakness: CWE-913 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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