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CVE-2023-2975
published 2023-07-14

CVE-2023-2975: Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a…

PriorityP428medium5.3CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNILAN
EPSS
0.62%
45.8th percentile
Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a consequence. Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be misled by removing, adding or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL implementation. We are currently unaware of any such applications. The AES-SIV algorithm allows for authentication of multiple associated data entries along with the encryption. To authenticate empty data the application has to call EVP_EncryptUpdate() (or EVP_CipherUpdate()) with NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length. The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL just returns success for such a call instead of performing the associated data authentication operation. The empty data thus will not be authenticated. As this issue does not affect non-empty associated data authentication and we expect it to be rare for an application to use empty associated data entries this is qualified as Low severity issue.

Affected

21 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianopenssl< openssl 3.0.10-1~deb12u1 (bookworm)openssl 3.0.10-1~deb12u1 (bookworm)
msrcazl3_qemu_8.2.0-16_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrccbl2_hvloader_1.0.1-5_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_hvloader_1.0.1-6_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_arm
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_x64
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.0.9-r23.0.9-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.1.1-r23.1.1-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.1.1-r23.1.1-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.1.1-r23.1.1-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.1.1-r23.1.1-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.1.1-r23.1.1-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.1.1-r23.1.1-r2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.0.10-1~deb12u13.0.10-1~deb12u1
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.0.10-13.0.10-1
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.0.10-13.0.10-1
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.123.0.2-0ubuntu1.12
opensslopenssl>= 3.0.0 < 3.0.103.0.10
opensslopenssl3.0.0 – 3.0.9
opensslopenssl>= 3.1.0 < 3.1.23.1.2
opensslopenssl3.1.0 – 3.1.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
osv5.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.3MEDIUM
vendor_msrc5.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.3MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu5.3MEDIUM
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