CVE-2023-50981

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50981
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-50981.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-50981
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-22T10:32:22Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ModularSquareRoot in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted DER public-key data associated with squared odd numbers, such as the square of 268995137513890432434389773128616504853.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/50xxx/CVE-2023-50981.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/weidai11/cryptopp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
843d74c7c97f9e19a615b8ff3c0ca06599ca501b
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:cryptopp:crypto\\+\\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
CRYPTOPP_5_0
CRYPTOPP_5_1
CRYPTOPP_5_2
CRYPTOPP_5_2_1
CRYPTOPP_5_2_3
CRYPTOPP_5_3_0
CRYPTOPP_5_4
CRYPTOPP_5_5
CRYPTOPP_5_5_1
CRYPTOPP_5_5_2
CRYPTOPP_5_6_0
CRYPTOPP_5_6_1
CRYPTOPP_5_6_2
CRYPTOPP_5_6_3
CRYPTOPP_5_6_4
CRYPTOPP_5_6_5
CRYPTOPP_6_0_0
CRYPTOPP_7_0_0
CRYPTOPP_8_0_0
CRYPTOPP_8_1_0
CRYPTOPP_8_2_0
CRYPTOPP_8_3_0
CRYPTOPP_8_4_0
CRYPTOPP_8_5_0
CRYPTOPP_8_6_0
CRYPTOPP_8_7_0
CRYPTOPP_8_8_0
CRYPTOPP_8_9_0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-50981.json"