CVE-2002-20001
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
14.7%
top 5.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 11
Latest updateApr 21
Description
The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys, and trigger expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations, aka a D(HE)at or D(HE)ater attack. The client needs very little CPU resources and network bandwidth. The attack may be more disruptive in cases where a client can require a server to select its largest supported key size. The basic attack scenario is that the client must cla…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages28 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-jx4r-qc68-xjr5: The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys,↗2022-04-21
CVEList▶
CVE-2002-20001: The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys,↗2021-11-11