CVE-2018-0732

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0i-dev (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0h). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2p-dev (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2o).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0732

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0732.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:1.1.0.i-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.1.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.