Vulnerability in Randombit Botan
CVE-2024-34702
Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. Prior to 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificate…
EPSS: 0.004 (63.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.
Affected products
- Randombit Botan — versions < 2.19.5, >= 3.0.0, < 3.5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/security/advisories/GHSA-5gg9-hqpr-r58j (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4034 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4045 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4047 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4052 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4186 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4187 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/21dccc8fef18c165ba3301d850ac61521f85637e (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/39535f13c322f56aa3da2f44b2b6abb8619a82ac (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/477822a2d10f02d8ba46c9d8a5132f25843f5cc1 (x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-34702?
- CVE-2024-34702 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Randombit Botan, classified under Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification). CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-07-08.
- How severe is CVE-2024-34702?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-34702 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.