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CVE-2026-54736

Phalcon: Non-constant-time HMAC verification in `Encryption\Crypt::decrypt` (timing side-channel) PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Phalcon is a high-performance, full-stack PHP framework. Prior to 5.14.1, Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::decrypt compares the attacker-supplied HMAC tag against the freshly computed HMAC using PHP/Zephir identity comparison, which lowers to a byte-wise comparison that returns early on the first differing byte. This observable timing discrepancy can allow an attacker to recover a valid tag byte-by-byte and attach it to a chosen IV and ciphertext so that decrypt() accepts tampered encrypted content as authentic. This issue is fixed in version 5.14.1.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
phalcon / cphalconaffected < 5.14.1

CWE

CWE-208, CWE-347

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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