CVE-2017-3732

medium
Published 2017-05-04 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2k and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0d. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private key that is shared between multiple clients. For example this can occur by default in OpenSSL DHE based SSL/TLS ciphersuites. Note: This issue is very similar to CVE-2015-3193 but must be treated as a separate problem.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:1.0.2.k-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.0d-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.0d-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.0d-1
debian debiansidfixed1.1.0d-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.0d-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2i
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0a
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0b
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0c
nodejs nodejsnode.js{"startIncluding":"4.0.0","endIncluding":"4.1.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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