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CVE-2017-3736

CVSS 6.5 MEDIUMEPSS 92%CWE-200

There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and likely only accessible to a limited numbe...

Published 2017-11-02 · last modified 2026-05-13

details

CISA KEV status
Not in catalog
CVSS v3
6.5 / MEDIUM
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
92% percentile (score 0.0829)
CWE
CWE-200

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