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Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Croc through 9.6.5. When a custom shared secret is used, the sender and receiver may divulge parts of this secret to an untrusted Relay, as part of composing a room name.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-43617
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 16:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Croc through 9.6.5. When a custom shared secret is used, the sender and receiver may divulge parts of this secret to an untrusted Relay, as part of composing a room name.
osv:CVE-2023-43617
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.353766477Z",
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