CVE detail

CVE-2020-8911 — CVE-2020-8911

Published 2020-08-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor amazon · Product aws_s3_crypto_sdk · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
5.6
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0035
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
28.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

A padding oracle vulnerability exists in the AWS S3 Crypto SDK for GoLang versions prior to V2. The SDK allows users to encrypt files with AES-CBC without computing a Message Authentication Code (MAC), which then allows an attacker who has write access to the target's S3 bucket and can observe whether or not an endpoint with access to the key can decrypt a file, they can reconstruct the plaintext with (on average) 128*length (plaintext) queries to the endpoint, by exploiting CBC's ability to manipulate the bytes of the next block and PKCS5 padding errors. It is recommended to update your SDK to V2 or later, and re-encrypt your files.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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