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NOTICE UPDATED - April, 25th 2024

NIST has updated the NVD program announcement page with additional information regarding recent concerns and the temporary delays in enrichment efforts.

CVE-2023-3446 Detail

Description

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. One of those checks confirms that the modulus ('p' parameter) is not too large. Trying to use a very large modulus is slow and OpenSSL will not normally use a modulus which is over 10,000 bits in length. However the DH_check() function checks numerous aspects of the key or parameters that have been supplied. Some of those checks use the supplied modulus value even if it has already been found to be too large. An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be vulernable 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.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
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


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/19/4 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/19/5 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/19/6 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/31/1 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1fa20cf2f506113c761777127a38bce5068740eb Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=8780a896543a654e757db1b9396383f9d8095528 Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc9867c1e03c22ebf56943be205202e576aabf23 Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00019.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230803-0011/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230719.txt Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-3446
NVD Published Date:
07/19/2023
NVD Last Modified:
02/04/2024
Source:
OpenSSL Software Foundation