Answer in brief
CVE-2026-65626 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability in Bleichenbacher padding oracle in RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5 decryption in jose. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps potatosalad/jose (generic), potatosalad/potatosalad/erlang-jose (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.9. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps potatosalad/jose (generic), potatosalad/potatosalad/erlang-jose (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| potatosalad/josegeneric | >=1.3.0 <1.11.13 | 1.11.13 |
| potatosalad/potatosalad/erlang-josegeneric | >=853c5d4c4c0bd2a7ecb055b237f4284184e176c8 <0eac8cef9aaa48fb6846f4e47a0002dc4a73966d | 0eac8cef9aaa48fb6846f4e47a0002dc4a73966d |
Published upstream
Oct 26, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 26, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 26, 2026
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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