CVE-2024-50382 (GCVE-0-2024-50382)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-24 19:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-24 19:56 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| botan_project | botan |
Affected:
0 , < 3.6.0
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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