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GHSA-9CHR-M38J-W26G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-30 00:31 – Updated: 2026-01-28 00:31

Details

Fault Injection vulnerability in RsaPrivateDecryption function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/rsa.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges via Rowhammer fault injection to the RsaKey structure.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

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CVE-2024-1545 (GCVE-0-2024-1545)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-29 23:02 – Updated: 2026-01-27 21:58

Title

Fault Injection of RSA encryption in WolfCrypt

Summary

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-30 14:19 UTC

CWE

CWE-1256 - Improper Restriction of Software Interfaces to Hardware Features
CWE-252 - Unchecked Return Value

Assigner

wolfSSL icscert root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/tag/v…
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/7167

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
WolfSSL	wolfCrypt	Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.6.6 (git)
wolfssl	wolfcrypt	Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.6.6 (git) cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfcrypt::::::::

Date Public

2024-03-20 17:30

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