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CVE-2023-6237

April 25, 2024, 1:18 p.m.

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Product(s) Impacted

OpenSSL

  • 3.0
  • 3.1

Description

Issue summary: Checking excessively long invalid RSA public keys may take a long time. Impact summary: Applications that use the function EVP_PKEY_public_check() to check RSA public keys may experience long delays. Where the key that is being checked has been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service. When function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is called on RSA public keys, a computation is done to confirm that the RSA modulus, n, is composite. For valid RSA keys, n is a product of two or more large primes and this computation completes quickly. However, if n is an overly large prime, then this computation would take a long time. An application that calls EVP_PKEY_public_check() and supplies an RSA key obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. The function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is not called from other OpenSSL functions however it is called from the OpenSSL pkey command line application. For that reason that application is also vulnerable if used with the '-pubin' and '-check' options on untrusted data. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are affected by this issue.

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Date

Published: April 25, 2024, 7:15 a.m.

Last Modified: April 25, 2024, 1:18 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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Source

openssl-security@openssl.org

References

https://github.com/ openssl-security@openssl.org

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https://www.openssl.org/ openssl-security@openssl.org