CVE-2024-50383

5.9 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (5.9) in botan project botan. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Botan before 3.6.0, when certain GCC versions are used, has a compiler-induced secret-dependent operation in lib/utils/donna128.h in donna128 (used in Chacha-Poly1305 and x25519). An addition can be skipped if a carry is not set. This was observed for GCC 11.3.0 with -O2 on MIPS, and GCC on x86-i386. (Only 32-bit processors can be affected.)

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-203
Published: 2024-10-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

botan_project:botan

References

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13489
https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/53b0cfde580e86b03d0d27a488b6c134f662e957
https://github.com/randombit/botan/compare/3.5.0...3.6.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887153

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