CVE-2023-36660
CVSS 3.1 Score 9.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Jun 25, 2023
Updated: Jan 16, 2024
CWE ID 787
Summary
CVE-2023-36660 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting the OCB feature in libnettle, a cryptography library used in Nettle 3.9 and below. This flaw permits memory corruption, which could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition. Successful exploitation relies on the attacker having the ability to manipulate specially crafted input data, potentially through network traffic or locally executed applications. Users of Nettle are advised to update to version 3.9.1 or later to mitigate this risk.
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