Medium severity · published Feb 11, 2025
CVE-2024-12797
RFC7250 handshakes with unauthenticated servers don't abort as expected
6.3
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: Clients using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) to authenticate a
server may fail to notice that the server was not authenticated, because
handshakes don't abort as expected when the SSL_VERIFY_PEER verification mode
is set.
Impact summary: TLS and DTLS connections using raw public keys may be
vulnerable to man-in-middle attacks when server authentication failure is not
detected by clients.
RPKs are disabled by default in both TLS clients and TLS servers. The issue
only arises when TLS clients explicitly enable RPK use by the server, and the
server, likewise, enables sending of an RPK instead of an X.509 certificate
chain. The affected clients are those that then rely on the handshake to
fail when the server's RPK fails to match one of the expected public keys,
by setting the verification mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER.
Clients that enable server-side raw public keys can still find out that raw
public key verification failed by calling SSL_get_verify_result(), and those
that do, and take appropriate action, are not affected. This issue was
introduced in the initial implementation of RPK support in OpenSSL 3.2.
The FIPS modules in 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
3.4.0 before 3.4.1; 3.3.0 before 3.3.3; 3.2.0 before 3.2.4 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12797
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12797
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/738d4f9fdeaad57660dcba50a619fafced3fd5e9
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/798779d43494549b611233f92652f0da5328fbe7
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/87ebd203feffcf92ad5889df92f90bb0ee10a699
openssl-library.org
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20250211.txt
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/3
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/4
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