What is CVE-2022-48570?

CVE-2022-48570 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cryptopp Crypto\+\+, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2022-48570?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Cryptopp Crypto\+\+

CVE-2022-48570

Crypto++ through 8.4 contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. Function FixedSizeAllocatorWithCleanup could write to memory outside of the allocation if the allocated memory was not 16-byte aligned. NOTE: this issue exi…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.008 (53.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Cryptopp Crypto\+\+
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-48570?: CVE-2022-48570 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cryptopp Crypto\+\+, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-48570?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.