CVE-2025-13470

rnp: In RNP version 0.18.0 a refactoring regression causes the symmetric session key used for Public-Key Encrypted Sessio...

CVE-2025-13470 is fixed in 6 products on 1 platform, first by FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA, released November 21, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
n/a
important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0033
25th percentile

In RNP version 0.18.0 a refactoring regression causes the symmetric session key used for Public-Key Encrypted Session Key (PKESK) packets to be left uninitialized except for zeroing, resulting in it always being an all-zero byte array. Any data encrypted using public-key encryption in this release can be decrypted trivially by supplying an all-zero session key, fully compromising confidentiality. The vulnerability affects only public key encryption (PKESK packets).  Passphrase-based encryption (SKESK packets) is not affected. Root cause: Vulnerable session key buffer used in PKESK packet generation. The defect was introduced in commit `7bd9a8dc356aae756b40755be76d36205b6b161a` where initialization logic inside `encrypted_build_skesk()` only randomized the key for the SKESK path and omitted it for the PKESK path.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
librnp · Fedora 43 0.18.1-1.fc43 FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA Nov 21, 2025
librnp-debuginfo · Fedora 43 0.18.1-1.fc43 FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA Nov 21, 2025
librnp-devel · Fedora 43 0.18.1-1.fc43 FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA Nov 21, 2025
rnp · Debian 14 0.18.1-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-13470 Nov 21, 2025
rnp · Fedora 43 0.18.1-1.fc43 FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA Nov 21, 2025
rnp · opensuse-leap 16.0 0.18.1-bp160.1.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20116-1 Nov 27, 2025
rnp-debuginfo · Fedora 43 0.18.1-1.fc43 FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA Nov 21, 2025
rnp-debugsource · Fedora 43 0.18.1-1.fc43 FEDORA-2025-A96CCC98CA Nov 21, 2025

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