MEDIUM 5.1 NuGet

Internal NCryptDecrypt method could be used externally from WindowsHello library.

GHSA-wvpv-ffcv-r6cw · CVE-2020-11005

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Description

Impact

Every user of the library before version 1.0.4.

Patches

Patched in 1.0.4+.

Workarounds

None.

References

https://github.com/SeppPenner/WindowsHello/issues/3

For more information

It this library is used to encrypt text and write the output to a txt file, another executable could be able to decrypt the text using the static method NCryptDecrypt from this same library without the need to use Windows Hello Authentication again.

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