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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Phalcon: Non-constant-time HMAC verification in `Encryption\Crypt::decrypt` (timing side-channel) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-208 CWE-347 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-07-10T21:02:53.873Z
Updated: 2026-07-10T21:02:53.873Z
Reserved: 2026-06-15T23:07:33.233Z
Link: CVE-2026-54736
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