CVE-2021-24115

Summary

CVECVE-2021-24115
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-22 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-02-26 12:38:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and hex).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Botan Project Botan All All All All
Application Botan Project Botan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Comparing 2.17.2...2.17.3 · randombit/botan · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Backport of #2543 to release-2 by randombit · Pull Request #2549 · randombit/botan · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Release Notes — Botan CONFIRM botan.randombit.net Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179748 Debian Security Update for botan (CVE-2021-24115)
  • 500070 Alpine Linux Security Update for botan
  • 501730 Alpine Linux Security Update for botan
  • 503873 Alpine Linux Security Update for botan
  • 750196 OpenSUSE Security Update for Botan (openSUSE-SU-2021:0765-1)
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