CVE-2024-50382

Published Oct 23, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7586-1 Botan vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00103}

epss

{'score': 0.00111}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0012}

epss

{'score': 0.00103}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Botan Project
Botan Project botan
Weaknesses CWE-203
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Botan Project
Botan Project botan
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.
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Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Oct 24, 2024, 7:57 PM
Reserved
Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Oct 23, 2024, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 8:04 AM