Security Resilience

CVE-2023-50980

Cryptopp Crypto\+\+ ≤ 8.9.0

Public PoC
Published
18 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0083 57th percentile
Risk Priority 59 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-50980 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Cryptopp Crypto\+\+. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

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.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-50981Same product: Cryptopp Crypto\+\+
CVE-2023-50979Same product: Cryptopp Crypto\+\+

Affected Assets

cryptopp
crypto\+\+
≤ 8.9.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References