CVE-2024-45192

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in Matrix libolm through 3.2.16. Cache-timing attacks can occur due to use of base64 when decoding group session keys. This refers to the libolm implementation of Olm. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

References

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249371

https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/-/commit/6d4b5b07887821a95b144091c8497d09d377f985

https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-22

Updated: 2024-09-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium