CVE-2025-13470EPSS p21.0%
CVE-2025-13470CVE-2025-13470
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.30% probability of exploitation · percentile 21.0% · 2026-10-10T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-08 |