Skip to content

BER/CER/DER decoder panics on invalid input

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 13, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 5, 2023

Package

cargo bcder (Rust)

Affected versions

< 0.7.3

Patched versions

0.7.3

Description

NLnet Labs’ bcder library up to and including version 0.7.2 panics while decoding certain invalid input data rather than rejecting the data with an error. This can affect both the actual decoding stage as well as accessing content of types that utilized delayed decoding.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 13, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 13, 2023
Reviewed Sep 14, 2023
Last updated Nov 5, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-39914

GHSA ID

GHSA-6jmw-6mxw-w4jc

Source code

Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.