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NASA · CryptoLib
Out-of-Bounds Read in KMC Encrypt Metadata Parsing via Flawed strtok Pattern
SecMateSECMATE-2025-0008
VendorNASA
ProductCryptoLib
ReportedNovember 29, 2025
FixedJanuary 6, 2026
PublishedJanuary 9, 2026
AdvisoryGHSA-4g6v-36fv-qcvw
An out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in cryptography_encrypt() occurs when parsing JSON metadata from KMC server responses. The flawed strtok iteration pattern uses ptr + strlen(ptr) + 1 which reads one byte past allocated buffer boundaries when processing short or malformed metadata strings.