CVE-2023-29409 – Large RSA keys can cause high CPU usage in crypto/tls

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2023-29409

Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable. A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Golang Go package caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw. • https://github.com/mateusz834/CVE-2023-29409 https://go.dev/cl/515257 https://go.dev/issue/61460 https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/X0b6CsSAaYI/m/Efv5DbZ9AwAJ https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1987 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230831-0010 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29409 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228743 • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption •