Medium severity · published Jul 8, 2024
CVE-2024-34702
Botan has a Denial of Service Due to Excessive Name Constraints
5.3
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BO
botan · randombit
< 2.19.5; >= 3.0.0, < 3.5.0 · source: vendor, CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-34702
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34702
github.com
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/21dccc8fef18c165ba3301d850ac61521f85637e
github.com
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/39535f13c322f56aa3da2f44b2b6abb8619a82ac
github.com
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/477822a2d10f02d8ba46c9d8a5132f25843f5cc1
github.com
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/7606d70d3a2ac7114476ec2651ca0243c4536fdf
github.com
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/c3264821b9f6286ee4e6e3e06826f6b7177e6d41
github.com
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/ff704b12e6fa351aaedd07bffdc91722e84586b8
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