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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-0733

This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the security claims of the scheme.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 8.28%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0h (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0g).

CVSS 3.0
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
8.28% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
openssl/openssl
Source
openssl-security@openssl.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.