CWE-325 45 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-325: Missing Cryptographic Step

Overview

CWE-325 (Missing Cryptographic Step) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product does not implement a required step in a cryptographic algorithm, resulting in weaker encryption than advertised by the algorithm.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Not Technology-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-48480 2026-06-04 The netty incubator codec.bhttp is a java language binary http parser. Prior to version 0.0.22.FInal, the codec-ohttp implementation of draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-ohttp does not verify that a cryptograph…
CVE-2026-41395 2026-04-28 OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains a webhook replay vulnerability in Plivo V3 signature verification that canonicalizes query ordering for signatures but hashes raw URLs for replay detection. Attacker…
CVE-2026-29142 2026-04-02 SEPPmail Secure Email Gateway before version 15.0.3 allows an attacker to forge a GINA-encrypted email.
CVE-2026-4601 2026-03-23 Versions of the package jsrsasign before 11.1.1 are vulnerable to Missing Cryptographic Step via the KJUR.crypto.DSA.signWithMessageHash process in the DSA signing implementation. An attacker can reco…
CVE-2026-4258 2026-03-17 All versions of the package sjcl are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to missing point-on-curve validation in sjcl.ecc.basicKey.publicKey(). An attacker can recover a…
CVE-2025-47383 2026-03-02 Weak configuration may lead to cryptographic issue when a VoWiFi call is triggered from UE.
CVE-2025-69418 2026-01-27 Issue summary: When using the low-level OCB API directly with AES-NI or<br>other hardware-accelerated code paths, inputs whose length is not a multiple<br>of 16 bytes can leave the final partial block…
CVE-2026-22863 2026-01-15 Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime. Before 2.6.0, node:crypto doesn't finalize cipher. The vulnerability allows an attacker to have infinite encryptions. This can lead to naive …
CVE-2025-60704 2025-11-11 Missing cryptographic step in Windows Kerberos allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
CVE-2025-59339 2025-09-17 The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. Session-recording ttyrec files, may be handled by the provided osh-encrypt-rsync script that is a he…
CVE-2025-58359 2025-09-05 ZF FROST is a Rust implementation of FROST (Flexible Round-Optimised Schnorr Threshold signatures). In versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.0, refresh shares with smaller min_signers will reduce security of gro…
CVE-2025-49600 2025-07-04 In MbedTLS 3.3.0 before 3.6.4, mbedtls_lms_verify may accept invalid signatures if hash computation fails and internal errors go unchecked, enabling LMS (Leighton-Micali Signature) forgery in a fault …
CVE-2015-20112 2025-06-29 RLPx 5 has two CTR streams based on the same key, IV, and nonce. This can facilitate decryption on a private network.
CVE-2025-5323 2025-05-29 A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in fossasia open-event-server 1.19.1. This issue affects the function send_email_change_user_email of the file /fossasia/open-event…
CVE-2025-3938 2025-05-22 Missing Cryptographic Step vulnerability in Tridium Niagara Framework on Windows, Linux, QNX, Tridium Niagara Enterprise Security on Windows, Linux, QNX allows Cryptanalysis. This issue affects Niagar…
CVE-2025-30147 2025-05-07 Besu Native contains scripts and tooling that is used to build and package the native libraries used by the Ethereum client Hyperledger Besu. Besu 24.7.1 through 25.2.2, corresponding to besu-native v…
CVE-2024-55655 2024-12-10 sigstore-python is a Python tool for generating and verifying Sigstore signatures. Versions of sigstore-python newer than 2.0.0 but prior to 3.6.0 perform insufficient validation of the "integration t…
CVE-2022-20793 2024-11-15 A vulnerability in pairing process of Cisco&nbsp;TelePresence CE Software and RoomOS Software for Cisco&nbsp;Touch 10 Devices could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate a legitimat…
CVE-2024-43547 2024-10-08 Windows Kerberos Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2023-39199 2023-11-14 Cryptographic issues with In-Meeting Chat for some Zoom clients may allow a privileged user to conduct an information disclosure via network access.

Previous names

  • Missing Required Cryptographic Step (2020-08-20)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Description, Functional_Areas, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships, Observed_Example, Relationship_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships
2014-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.7 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Description, Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Common_Consequences, Description, Modes_of_Introduction, Name
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2023-10-26 CWE Content Team 4.13 updated Demonstrative_Examples, References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Content Chen Chen, Rahul Kande, Jeyavijayan Rajendran 2023-06-21 suggested demonstrative example
Content Shaza Zeitouni, Mohamadreza Rostami, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi 2023-06-21 suggested demonstrative example
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