CVE-2023-3817

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3817
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-3817.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-3817
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-07-31T15:34:13Z
Modified
2026-07-17T20:58:38Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value
Details

Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow.

Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex() or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters may experience long delays. Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service.

The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. After fixing CVE-2023-3446 it was discovered that a large q parameter value can also trigger an overly long computation during some of these checks. A correct q value, if present, cannot be larger than the modulus p parameter, thus it is unnecessary to perform these checks if q is larger than p.

An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.

The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions. An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected. The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and EVP_PKEY_param_check().

Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam command line applications when using the "-check" option.

The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue.

The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this issue.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "openssl",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-606"
    ],
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    "unresolved_ranges": [
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                },
                {
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                },
                {
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                {
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                },
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                },
                {
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                },
                {
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            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openssl/openssl

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openssl/openssl
Events
Database specific
Show details
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        "CPE_RANGE",
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}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.2-NA
1.0.2-beta1
1.0.2-beta2
1.0.2-beta3
1.1.1-NA
1.1.1-pre1
1.1.1-pre2
1.1.1-pre3
1.1.1-pre4
1.1.1-pre5
1.1.1-pre6
1.1.1-pre7
1.1.1-pre8
1.1.1-pre9
openssl-3.*
openssl-3.0.0
openssl-3.0.1
openssl-3.0.2
openssl-3.0.3
openssl-3.0.4
openssl-3.0.5
openssl-3.0.6
openssl-3.0.7
openssl-3.0.8
openssl-3.0.9
openssl-3.1.0
openssl-3.1.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-3817.json"