Insecure CBC IV Generation in aescrypt gem 1.0.0 for Ruby

CVE-2013-7463 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The aescrypt gem 1.0.0 for Ruby does not randomize the CBC IV for use with the AESCrypt.encrypt and AESCrypt.decrypt functions, which allows attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a chosen plaintext attack.

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