CVE-2022-29229 Missing Cryptographic Step in cassproject

What is CVE-2022-29229?

CVE-2022-29229 is a medium-severity vulnerability in cassproject CASS, published on 18 May 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CaSS is a Competency and Skills System. CaSS Library, (npm:cassproject) has a missing cryptographic step when storing cryptographic keys that can allow a server administrator access to an account’s cryptographic keys. This affects CaSS servers using standalone username/password authentication, which uses a method that expects e2e cryptographic security of authorization credentials. The issue has been patched in 1.5.8, however, the vulnerable accounts are only resecured when the user next logs in using standalone authentication, as the data required to resecure the account is not available to the server. The issue may be mitigated by using SSO or client side certificates to log in. Please note that SSO and client side certificate authentication does not have this expectation of no-knowledge credential access, and cryptographic keys are available to the server administrator.

Weakness: CWE-325

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29229?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including cassproject. It affects 1 product.

Products include Cassproject Competency and Skills System.

How do I fix CVE-2022-29229?

Upgrade cassproject to 1.5.8 or later.

Is CVE-2022-29229 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29229 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7qcx-4p32-qcmx.