Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting openssl package, versions >=3.0.0


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.17% (54th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-OPENSSL-6149517
  • published 10 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 9 Jan 2024
  • credit Sverker Eriksson

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for openssl.

Overview

openssl is a package that wraps the OpenSSL library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm due to an issue in the POLY1305 MAC implementation on PowerPC CPUs. An attacker can corrupt the application state and cause incorrect calculations or potential denial of service by influencing the use of the POLY1305 MAC algorithm.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the attacker has the ability to affect the algorithm's usage and the application relies on non-volatile XMM registers.