Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Affecting botan package, versions [,2.19.5)[3.0.0,3.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BOTAN-7430918
  • published9 Jul 2024
  • disclosed8 Jul 2024
  • creditBing Shi

Introduced: 8 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-34702  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-405  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade botan to version 2.19.5, 3.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) due to the handling of X.509 certificates with a large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName field and a CA certificate with numerous name constraints.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1