CVE-2024-34702

July 8, 2024, 5:15 p.m.

Received
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Products

Botan

  • 3.5.0
  • 2.19.5

Source

security-advisories@github.com

Tags

CVE-2024-34702 details

Published : July 8, 2024, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified : July 8, 2024, 5:15 p.m.

Description

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. Prior to 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificates is quadratic in the number of names and name constraints. An attacker who presented a certificate chain which contained a very large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName, signed by a CA certificate which contained a large number of name constraints, could cause a denial of service. The problem has been addressed in Botan 3.5.0 and a partial backport has also been applied and is included in Botan 2.19.5.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4 5.3 6 7 8 9 10

Weakness

Weakness Name Description
CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric."

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

5.3

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

1.4

Base Severity

MEDIUM

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