CVE-2022-40735

Published Nov 14, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 3.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows use of long exponents that arguably make certain calculations unnecessarily expensive, because the 1996 van Oorschot and Wiener paper found that "(appropriately) short exponents" can be used when there are adequate subgroup constraints, and these short exponents can lead to less expensive calculations than for long exponents. This issue is different from CVE-2002-20001 because it is based on an observation about exponent size, rather than an observation about numbers that are not public keys. The specific situations in which calculation expense would constitute a server-side vulnerability depend on the protocol (e.g., TLS, SSH, or IKE) and the DHE implementation details. In general, there might be an availability concern because of server-side resource consumption from DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. Finally, it is possible for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and CVE-2002-20001 together.

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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6854-1 OpenSSL vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 12:28 PM
Reserved
Sep 15, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 14, 2022, 11:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:01 AM