CVE-2023-29409 (GCVE-0-2023-29409)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-02 19:47 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:49
VLAI
Title
Large RSA keys can cause high CPU usage in crypto/tls
Summary
Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 14:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
Go CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 64 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library crypto/tls Affected: 0 , < 1.19.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.20.0-0 , < 1.20.7 (semver)
Affected: 1.21.0-0 , < 1.21.0-rc.4 (semver)
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Credits
Mateusz Poliwczak
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