CVE-2024-39312 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-39312: Botan has an Authorization Error due to Name Constraint Decoding Bug

Vendor Randombit
Product botan
Weakness CWE-295
Published July 8, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. A bug in the parsing of name constraint extensions in X.509 certificates meant that if the extension included both permitted subtrees and excluded subtrees, only the permitted subtree would be checked. If a certificate included a name which was permitted by the permitted subtree but also excluded by excluded subtree, it would be accepted. Fixed in versions 3.5.0 and 2.19.5.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 8, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated