CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-50980

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-12-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-12-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

gf2n.cpp in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via DER public-key data for an F(2^m) curve, if the degree of each term in the polynomial is not strictly decreasing.

Affected configurations

• cryptopp crypto\+\+ (<= 8.9.0)

References