CVE-2021-24115

critical

Description

In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and hex).

References

https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2549

https://github.com/randombit/botan/compare/2.17.2...2.17.3

https://botan.randombit.net/news.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-02-22

Updated: 2021-02-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical