CVE-2024-34702
An attacker who presented a certificate chain which contained a very large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName, signed by a CA certificate which contained a large number of name constraints, could cause a denial of service.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.84%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificates is quadratic in the number of names and name constraints. An attacker who presented a certificate chain which contained a very large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName, signed by a CA certificate which contained a large number of name constraints, could cause a denial of service. The problem has been addressed in Botan 3.5.0 and a partial backport has also been applied and is included in Botan 2.19.5.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- EPSS
- 0.84% probability · 56th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-405
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/21dccc8fef18c165ba3301d850ac61521f85637e
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/39535f13c322f56aa3da2f44b2b6abb8619a82ac
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/477822a2d10f02d8ba46c9d8a5132f25843f5cc1
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/7606d70d3a2ac7114476ec2651ca0243c4536fdf
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/c3264821b9f6286ee4e6e3e06826f6b7177e6d41
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/ff704b12e6fa351aaedd07bffdc91722e84586b8
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4034
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4045
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4047
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4052
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4186
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4187
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/security/advisories/GHSA-5gg9-hqpr-r58j
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/21dccc8fef18c165ba3301d850ac61521f85637e
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/39535f13c322f56aa3da2f44b2b6abb8619a82ac
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/477822a2d10f02d8ba46c9d8a5132f25843f5cc1
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/7606d70d3a2ac7114476ec2651ca0243c4536fdf
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/c3264821b9f6286ee4e6e3e06826f6b7177e6d41
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/ff704b12e6fa351aaedd07bffdc91722e84586b8
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4034
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4045
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4047
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4052
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4186
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4187
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/security/advisories/GHSA-5gg9-hqpr-r58j
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.