Bug 2416402 (CVE-2025-13470) - CVE-2025-13470 RNP: RNP: Confidentiality compromise due to uninitialized symmetric session key in Public-Key Encrypted Session Key (PKESK) packets
Summary: CVE-2025-13470 RNP: RNP: Confidentiality compromise due to uninitialized symm...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-13470
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2417031 2417032 2417033 2417034 2417035
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Reported: 2025-11-21 18:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-25 15:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-21 18:01:18 UTC
In RNP version 0.18.0 a refactoring regression causes the symmetric 
session key used for Public-Key Encrypted Session Key (PKESK) packets to
 be left uninitialized except for zeroing, resulting in it always being 
an all-zero byte array.

Any data encrypted using public-key encryption 
in this release can be decrypted trivially by supplying an all-zero 
session key, fully compromising confidentiality.

The vulnerability affects only public key encryption (PKESK packets).  Passphrase-based encryption (SKESK packets) is not affected.

Root cause: Vulnerable session key buffer used in PKESK packet generation.



The defect was introduced in commit `7bd9a8dc356aae756b40755be76d36205b6b161a` where initialization 
logic inside `encrypted_build_skesk()` only randomized the key for the 
SKESK path and omitted it for the PKESK path.


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