CVE-2024-54137 (GCVE-0-2024-54137)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-12-10 16:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
liboqs has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation
Summary
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
Severity
7.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-09 22:09 UTC
CWE
- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/secur… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/commi… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-quantum-safe | liboqs |
Affected:
< 0.12.0
|
guessed | |
| open_quantum_safe | liboqs |
Affected:
0 , < 0.12.0
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:open_quantum_safe:liboqs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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