Medium severity · published Apr 25, 2024
CVE-2023-6237
Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys
5.9
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: Checking excessively long invalid RSA public keys may take
a long time.
Impact summary: Applications that use the function EVP_PKEY_public_check()
to check RSA public keys may experience long delays. Where the key that
is being checked has been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead
to a Denial of Service.
When function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is called on RSA public keys,
a computation is done to confirm that the RSA modulus, n, is composite.
For valid RSA keys, n is a product of two or more large primes and this
computation completes quickly. However, if n is an overly large prime,
then this computation would take a long time.
An application that calls EVP_PKEY_public_check() and supplies an RSA key
obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service
attack.
The function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is not called from other OpenSSL
functions however it is called from the OpenSSL pkey command line
application. For that reason that application is also vulnerable if used
with the '-pubin' and '-check' options on untrusted data.
The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue.
The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are affected by this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
3.0.0 before 3.0.13; 3.1.0 before 3.1.5; 3.2.0 before 3.2.1 · source: vendor
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem · Siemens
before V1.1.1 · source: CISA
SN
SINEC NMS · Siemens
before V3.0 SP1 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6237
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6237
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/0b0f7abfb37350794a4b8960fafc292cd5d1b84d
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/18c02492138d1eb8b6548cb26e7b625fb2414a2a
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a830f551557d3d66a84bbb18a5b889c640c36294
www.openssl.org
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20240115.txt
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/11/1
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240531-0007/
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