Information Exposure Through Discrepancy Affecting botan package, versions [,3.6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BOTAN-8302913
  • published24 Oct 2024
  • disclosed23 Oct 2024
  • creditMoritz Schneider, Daniele Lain, Ivan Puddu, Nicolas Dutly, Srdjan Capkun

Introduced: 23 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-50383  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade botan to version 3.6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure Through Discrepancy due to a compiler-induced secret-dependent operation in donna128. An attacker can potentially skip an addition operation if a carry is not set by exploiting this vulnerability.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the system uses GCC 11.3.0 with -O2 on MIPS, or GCC on x86-i386, and specifically on 32-bit processors.

CVSS Scores

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