CVE-2006-2940
openssl openssl: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via parasitic public keys with large (1) "public exponent" or (2) "public modulus" values in X.509 certificates that require extra time to process when using RSA signature verification.
- EPSS
- 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openssl:openssl
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-007.txt.asc
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01118771
- http://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-613