CVE-2021-20305CWE-327CWE-787

CVE-2021-20305

High · published April 6, 2021

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in Nettle in versions before 3.7.2, where several Nettle signature verification functions (GOST DSA, EDDSA & ECDSA) result in the Elliptic Curve Cryptography point (ECC) multiply function being called with out-of-range scalers, possibly resulting in incorrect results. This flaw allows an attacker to force an invalid signature, causing an assertion failure or possible validation. The highest threat to this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01742 · 77.6th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-327 · Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2021-04-06T02:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
nettle_project/nettle< 3.7.23.7.2
fedoraproject/fedoraall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
netapp/active_iq_unified_managerall versions—
netapp/ontap_select_deploy_administration_utilityall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (13)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 APR 21:31Z
    A flaw was found in Nettle in versions before 3.7.2, where several Nettle signature verification functions (GOST DSA, EDDSA & ECDSA) result in the Elliptic…
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