Jervis's Salt for PBKDF2 derived from password

CVE-2025-68703 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Vulnerability

https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/blob/157d2b63ffa5c4bb1d8ee2254950fd2231de2b05/src/main/groovy/net/gleske/jervis/tools/SecurityIO.groovy#L869-L870

https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/blob/157d2b63ffa5c4bb1d8ee2254950fd2231de2b05/src/main/groovy/net/gleske/jervis/tools/SecurityIO.groovy#L894-L895

The salt is derived from sha256Sum(passphrase). Two encryption operations with the same password will have the same derived key.

Impact

Pre-computation attacks.

Severity is considered low for internal uses of this library and high for consumers of this library.

Patches

Jervis will generate a random salt for each password and store it alongside the ciphertext.

Upgrade to Jervis 2.2.

Workarounds

None

References

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
Open repository advisory ↗
Source code
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Published (advisory)
2026-01-13 14:53:50 UTC
Updated
2026-01-21 16:23:03 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-01-13 14:53:50 UTC
NVD published
2026-01-13

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.01% 1.60%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.5 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
8.7 4.0 —
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:N)
No user interaction is required.
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:H)
High confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:N)
No availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-36h5-vrq6-pp34 ↗
CVE CVE-2025-68703 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
maven net.gleske:jervis < 2.2 2.2 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence