CVE-2021-3711

CVE-2021-3711: vulnerability in OpenSSL

SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow

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25Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 88%
exploitation probability
88%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
What the vendors declare (VEX)

Official vendor statements in CSAF/VEX format: whether their product is affected, already fixed, or ruled out — and why. These are the vendor's assertions, not Vexday's judgment.

Affected
1 product
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
none_available: Affected
Not affected
8 products (33 components) — because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat Virtualization 4 · and others 3
In order to decrypt SM2 encrypted data an application is expected to call the API function EVP_PKEY_decrypt(). Typically an application will call this function twice. The first time, on entry, the "out" parameter can be NULL and, on exit, the "outlen" parameter is populated with the buffer size required to hold the decrypted plaintext. The application can then allocate a sufficiently sized buffer and call EVP_PKEY_decrypt() again, but this time passing a non-NULL value for the "out" parameter. A bug in the implementation of the SM2 decryption code means that the calculation of the buffer size required to hold the plaintext returned by the first call to EVP_PKEY_decrypt() can be smaller than the actual size required by the second call. This can lead to a buffer overflow when EVP_PKEY_decrypt() is called by the application a second time with a buffer that is too small. A malicious attacker who is able present SM2 content for decryption to an application could cause attacker chosen data to overflow the buffer by up to a maximum of 62 bytes altering the contents of other data held after the buffer, possibly changing application behaviour or causing the application to crash. The location of the buffer is application dependent but is typically heap allocated. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1l (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1k).
Affected products
OpenSSL · OpenSSL