CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-27354
High (7.5). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in phpseclib 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36. An attacker can construct a malformed certificate containing an extremely large prime to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for an isPrime primality check). NOTE: this issue was introduced when attempting to fix CVE-2023-27560.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-400
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- phpseclib:phpseclib
References
- https://gist.github.com/katzj/ee72f3c2a00590812b2ea3c0c8890e0b
- https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/master/phpseclib/Math/PrimeField.php#L49
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00003.html
- https://gist.github.com/katzj/ee72f3c2a00590812b2ea3c0c8890e0b