Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting wolfssl/wolfssl package, versions [,4.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WOLFSSLWOLFSSL-2369425
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19962  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wolfssl/wolfssl to version 4.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm wolfSSL before 4.3.0 mishandles calls to wc_SignatureGenerateHash, leading to fault injection in RSA cryptography.

CVSS Scores

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