CVE-2024-50382

Medium

Description

Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced secret-dependent control flow in lib/utils/ghash/ghash.cpp in GHASH in AES-GCM. There is a branch instead of an XOR with carry. This was observed for Clang in LLVM 15 on RISC-V.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.9
Exploit probability—
ProductBotan
PublishedOct 23, 2024
First seenOct 23, 2024
Weakness typeCWE-203CWE-203

How to fix

Update
  • botan_project botan3.6.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
botan_project botanv < 3.6.03.6.0

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