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CVE-2023-3817

medium CVSS 5.3 EPSS 3.0%

Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex() or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters may experience long delays. Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service. The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. After fixing CVE-2023-3446 it was discovered that a large q parameter value can also trigger an overly long computation during some of these checks. A correct q value, if present, cannot be larger than the modulus p parameter, thus it is unnecessary to perform these checks if q is larger than p. An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions. An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected. The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and EVP_PKEY_param_check(). Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam...

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Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2023-3817 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
Medium
CVSS base score
5.3 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-606
Published
2023-07-31

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