Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting openssl package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

0.0
low
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-OPENSSL-6913424
  • published 19 May 2024
  • disclosed 16 May 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

openssl is a package that wraps the OpenSSL library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to improper user input validation in the EVP_PKEY_param_check or EVP_PKEY_public_check functions. An attacker can cause a denial of service by supplying excessively long DSA keys or parameters obtained from an untrusted source.

Note:

OpenSSL does not call these functions on untrusted DSA keys, so only applications that directly call these functions may be vulnerable.

Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL pkey and pkeyparam command line applications when using the "-check" option.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

3.7 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

5.3 medium
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SUSE

5.3 medium