CVE-2024-41996

Public on 2024-08-26
Modified on 2024-09-02
Description
Validating the order of the public keys in the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol, when an approved safe prime is used, allows remote attackers (from the client side) to trigger unnecessarily expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. The client may cause asymmetric resource consumption. The basic attack scenario is that the client must claim that it can only communicate with DHE, and the server must be configured to allow DHE and validate the order of the public key.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core edk2 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 1 openssl No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 openssl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Openssl-snapsafe Extra openssl-snapsafe Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 1 openssl098e No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl098e Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl11 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ovmf Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H