Information Exposure Affecting wolfssl/wolfssl package, versions [,3.10.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WOLFSSLWOLFSSL-2369423
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-6076  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wolfssl/wolfssl to version 3.10.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In versions of wolfSSL before 3.10.2 the function fp_mul_comba makes it easier to extract RSA key information for a malicious user who has access to view cache on a machine.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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