Vulnerability CVE-2024-27354


Published: 2024-03-01   Modified: 2024-03-02

Description:
An issue was discovered in phpseclib 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36. An attacker can construct a malformed certificate containing an extremely large prime to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for an isPrime primality check). NOTE: this issue was introduced when attempting to fix CVE-2023-27560.

 References:
https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/master/phpseclib/Math/PrimeField.php#L49
https://gist.github.com/katzj/ee72f3c2a00590812b2ea3c0c8890e0b

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