CVE-2024-50382

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

CVSS Score

5.9 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

Botan

  • before 3.6.0

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.

Weaknesses

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.

CWE ID: 203

Date

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

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
5.9
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

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

References