CVE-2024-12243
Published: 10 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-12243 is a medium-severity Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (CWE-407) vulnerability in Siemens (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 20.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50709
Vulnerability details
A flaw was found in GnuTLS, which relies on libtasn1 for ASN.1 data processing. Due to an inefficient algorithm in libtasn1, decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data can take excessive time, leading to increased resource consumption. This flaw allows a remote…
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attacker to send a specially crafted certificate, causing GnuTLS to become unresponsive or slow, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
- 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.
Addresses inefficient algorithms whose complexity can be exploited for DoS.