CVE-2023-2975
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2975
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-2975.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-2975
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2023-07-14T12:15:09.023Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-10T04:37:18.998512Z
- Severity
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- 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a consequence.
Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be misled by removing, adding or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL implementation. We are currently unaware of any such applications.
The AES-SIV algorithm allows for authentication of multiple associated data entries along with the encryption. To authenticate empty data the application has to call EVPEncryptUpdate() (or EVPCipherUpdate()) with NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length. The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL just returns success for such a call instead of performing the associated data authentication operation. The empty data thus will not be authenticated.
As this issue does not affect non-empty associated data authentication and we expect it to be rare for an application to use empty associated data entries this is qualified as Low severity issue.
- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/15/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/19/5
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230714.txt
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0004/
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=00e2f5eea29994d19293ec4e8c8775ba73678598
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a83f0c958811f07e0d11dfc6b5a6a98edfd5bdc
Affected packages
Git / github.com/openssh/openssh-portable
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
Affected versions
Other
Git / github.com/openssl/openssl
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl
- Events
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IntroducedLast affectedIntroducedLast affected