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Go to dashboardThe Erlang jose library's pure-Erlang RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5 decryption acts as a Bleichenbacher padding oracle, with no implicit rejection and non-blinded modular exponentiation. An attacker who can submit ciphertexts to an endpoint that unwraps RSA1_5 keys can recover plaintexts such as content-encryption keys in roughly 10^4 to 10^6 queries.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-26 20:50 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Applications that use the jose Erlang library from 1.3.0 before 1.11.13 and expose a decryption path that accepts RSA1_5 JWE keys or calls decrypt_private/3 with rsa_pkcs1_padding on attacker-supplied ciphertexts. Systems that only verify signatures or use OAEP padding are not exposed through this oracle.
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rebar.lock or mix.lock (Erlang/Elixir projects), e.g. grep jose rebar.lock mix.lockdecrypt_private/3 with rsa_pkcs1_padding1.11.13 or laterEach row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
The pure-Erlang RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5 decryption in the jose_jwa_pkcs1 module is a Bleichenbacher padding oracle. eme_pkcs1_decode/2 returns the recovered message when a decrypted block has valid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding (a leading 0x00 0x02, a padding string of at least eight non-zero bytes, and a 0x00 separator) and returns a distinct error result otherwise, and rsaes_pkcs1_decrypt/2 additionally returns {error, {badsize, _}} when the length check fails. The implementation applies no implicit-rejection countermeasure (RFC 8017 §7.2.2): it does not substitute a deterministic pseudo-random plaintext on a padding failure, so a one-bit padding-conformance signal leaks to the caller. Because the underlying modular exponentiation in dp/2 is a raw, non-blinded crypto:mod_pow/3, the padding check also stays distinguishable by timing even when an application normalizes every failure to a single error value.
An unauthenticated attacker who knows only the public RSA key and can submit ciphertexts to a decryption endpoint that unwraps RSA1_5 JWE keys (or otherwise calls decrypt_private/3 with rsa_pkcs1_padding) can use this oracle to recover the plaintext of intercepted ciphertexts, such as content-encryption keys and thus the protected message, or to forge signatures, through roughly 10^4 to 10^6 adaptive chosen-ciphertext queries.
This issue affects jose: from 1.3.0 before 1.11.13.
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