CVE-2024-54137 (GCVE-0-2024-54137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-12-10 16:10
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Title
liboqs has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation
Summary
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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open-quantum-safe liboqs Affected: < 0.12.0
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