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CVE-2021-24115 Affecting botan package, versions <2.17.3-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-BOTAN-7008423
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 22 Feb 2021
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Introduced: 22 Feb 2021

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How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 botan to version 2.17.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream botan package and not the botan package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and hex).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High