CVE-2024-29857

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Publication date:

14/05/2024

Last modified:

06/12/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0008/
https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html