User-session denial of service via anomalous P-256 key
Published Jul 29, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Improper exceptional-condition handling in Western Digital Sweet B Library before 2 allows remote attackers to interrupt one user session via a P-256 key. The point-scalar multiplication path returns an error for a public key whose X coordinate is zero but writes an invalid, unreduced field value to the output buffer before signaling that error. Reachability requires a consuming application to pass the anomalous key into shared-secret or point-multiplication routines and then mishandle the error or output; the reported effect is confined to an individual user and does not extend to other components.
Summary
What happened
Improper exceptional-condition handling in Western Digital Sweet B Library before 2 allows remote attackers to interrupt one user session via a P-256 key. The point-scalar multiplication path returns an error for a public key whose X coordinate is zero but writes an invalid, unreduced field value to the output buffer before signaling that error. Reachability requires a consuming application to pass the anomalous key into shared-secret or point-multiplication routines and then mishandle the error or output; the reported effect is confined to an individual user and does not extend to other components.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-23004
- Published
- Jul 29, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Western Digital Corporation
- Product
- Sweet B Library
- Classifications
- CWE-707, CWE-682, CWE-703, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 29, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=Sweet B Library <v2
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