CVE-2023-36660

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-24

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The OCB feature in libnettle in Nettle 3.9 before 3.9.1 allows memory corruption.

Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nettle. Versions greater than or equal to 3.9.1 are affected.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-06-25 CVE Reserved
2023-06-25 CVE Published
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212112	2024-01-16
https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/commit/867a4548b95705291a3afdd66d76e7f17ba2618f	2024-01-16
https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/compare/nettle_3.9_release_20230514...nettle_3.9.1_release_20230601	2024-01-16

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24	2024-01-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Nettle Project Search vendor "Nettle Project"		Nettle Search vendor "Nettle Project" for product "Nettle"				3.9 Search vendor "Nettle Project" for product "Nettle" and version "3.9"		-		Affected