CVE-2022-23408
Published: 18 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-23408 is a critical-severity Use of Insufficiently Random Values (CWE-330) vulnerability in Wolfssl Wolfssl. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-28486
Vulnerability details
wolfSSL 5.x before 5.1.1 uses non-random IV values in certain situations. This affects connections (without AEAD) using AES-CBC or DES3 with TLS 1.1 or 1.2 or DTLS 1.1 or 1.2. This occurs because of misplaced memory initialization in BuildMessage in…
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internal.c.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Key generation under controlled management uses approved random-bit sources rather than insufficiently random values.