CVE-2024-50382

Oct. 25, 2024, 12:56 p.m.

5.9
Medium

Description

Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Botan
  • ['before 3.6.0']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-203
Observable Discrepancy
The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

References

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13489
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/53b0cfde580e86b03d0d27a488b6c134f662e957
https://github.com/randombit/botan/compare/3.5.0...3.6.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887153

Tags

cve@mitre.org
CWE-203
2024-10-23
CVE-2024-50382

CVSS Score

5.9 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Timeline

Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 25, 2024, 12:56 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cve@mitre.org

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