CVE-2024-34702
Published: 08 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-34702 is a medium-severity Amplification (CWE-405) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 36.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-34997
Vulnerability details
Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. Prior to 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificates is quadratic in the number…
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of names and name constraints. An attacker who presented a certificate chain which contained a very large number of names in the SubjectAlternativeName, signed by a CA certificate which contained a large number of name constraints, could cause a denial of service. The problem has been addressed in Botan 3.5.0 and a partial backport has also been applied and is included in Botan 2.19.5.
- 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.
Reduces impact of amplification attacks that overwhelm the primary site by allowing operations to shift to an equivalent alternate site.
Alternate services reduce the impact of amplification attacks that exhaust primary telecommunications resources.
Amplification attacks that exhaust the primary path are mitigated by the existence of an independent alternate path for command traffic.
Employs controls that mitigate amplification attacks causing asymmetric resource use.
Limits amplification effects by controlling how resources are allocated under high-volume or recursive load.