CVE-2023-3817: medium-severity vulnerability in OpenSSL
Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value
Published · Updated
E-mail alert when it lands in KEV, gets a public PoC or its score goes up.
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 3.0%
Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow.
Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex()
or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters may experience long
delays. Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained
from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service.
The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. After fixing
CVE-2023-3446 it was discovered that a large q parameter value can also trigger
an overly long computation during some of these checks. A correct q value,
if present, cannot be larger than the modulus p parameter, thus it is
unnecessary to perform these checks if q is larger than p.
An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained
from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions.
An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected.
The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and
EVP_PKEY_param_check().
Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam command line applications
when using the "-check" option.
The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue.
The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
OpenSSL · OpenSSLRelated CVEs — OpenSSL
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2022-2068CRITICALThe c_rehash script allows command injectionEPSS 96.4%CVE-2022-3786HIGHX.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer OverflowEPSS 92.5%CVE-2022-3602HIGHX.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer OverflowEPSS 90.8%CVE-2021-3711—SM2 Decryption Buffer OverflowEPSS 87.8%CVE-2022-1292CRITICALThe c_rehash script allows command injectionEPSS 82.6%CVE-2023-2650MEDIUMPossible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiersEPSS 75.4%
References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-099606.htmlhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.htmlhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-915275.htmlhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-943925.htmlhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/43https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a1eb62c29db6cb5eec707f9338aee00f44e26f5https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=869ad69aadd985c7b8ca6f4e5dd0eb274c9f3644https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=9002fd07327a91f35ba6c1307e71fa6fd4409b7fhttps://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=91ddeba0f2269b017dc06c46c993a788974b1aa5https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00019.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230818-0014/