What is CVE-2024-34703?

CVE-2024-34703 is a high-severity vulnerability in Randombit Botan, classified under Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-06-30.

How severe is CVE-2024-34703?

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

Resource exhaustion in Randombit Botan

CVE-2024-34703

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 versions 3.3.0 and 2.19.4, an attacker could present an ECDSA X.5…

EPSS: 0.002 (42.1th 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

Randombit Botan — versions >= 3.0.0-alpha0, < 3.3.0, < 2.19.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

https://github.com/randombit/botan/security/advisories/GHSA-w4g2-7m2h-7xj7 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/08c404b23740babee1f6aa51b54e966029aadee4 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/94e9154c143aa5264da6254a6a1be5bc66ee2b5a (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-34703?: CVE-2024-34703 is a high-severity vulnerability in Randombit Botan, classified under Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-06-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-34703?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.