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TI-2023-04935 Aliases CVE-2023-5363GHSA-xw78-pcr6-wrg8

Incorrect cipher key & IV length processing

Priority MEDIUM 46CWE-684Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

Issue summary: A bug has been identified in the processing of key and initialisation vector (IV) lengths. This can lead to potential truncation or overruns during the initialisation of some symmetric ciphers. Impact summary: A truncation in the IV can result in non-uniqueness, which could result in loss of confidentiality for some cipher modes. When calling EVP_EncryptInit_ex2(), EVP_DecryptInit_ex2() or EVP_CipherInit_ex2() the provided OSSL_PARAM array is processed after the key and IV have been established. Any alterations to the key length, via the "keylen" parameter or the IV length, via the "ivlen" parameter, within the OSSL_PARAM array will not take effect as intended, potentially causing truncation or overreading of these values. The following ciphers and cipher modes are impacted: RC2, RC4, RC5, CCM, GCM and OCB. For the CCM, GCM and OCB cipher modes, truncation of the IV can result in loss of confidentiality. For example, when following NIST's SP 800-38D section 8.2.1 guidance for constructing a deterministic IV for AES in GCM mode, truncation of the counter portion could lead to IV reuse. Both truncations and overruns of the key and overruns of the IV will produce incorrect results and could, in some cases, trigger a memory exception. However, these issues are not currently assessed as security critical. Changing the key and/or IV lengths is not considered to be a common operation and the vulnerable API was recently introduced. Furthermore it is likely that application developers will have spotted this problem during testing since decryption would fail unless both peers in the communication were similarly vulnerable. For these reasons we expect the probability of an application being vulnerable to this to be quite low. However if an application is vulnerable then this issue is considered very serious. For these reasons we have assessed this issue as Moderate severity overall. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this because the issue lies outside of the FIPS provider boundary. OpenSSL 3.1 and 3.0 are vulnerable to this issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.03939 90th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed OpenSSL (OpenSSL): 3.0.12, 3.1.4Red Hat: 4 advisories

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
OpenSSLOpenSSL3.0.0 to before 3.0.12; 3.1.0 to before 3.1.43.0.12, 3.1.4Patch availableCNA
  • OpenSSL VendorOpenSSL Affected 3.0.0 to before 3.0.12; 3.1.0 to before 3.1.4 Fixed in 3.0.12, 3.1.4 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 12

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.0.0 to before 3.0.12; 3.1.0 to before 3.1.4VulnerableOpenSSL
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*12.0VulnerableDebian
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDVulnerableNetApp
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h300s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*all versionsRunning onNetApp
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDVulnerableNetApp
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h410s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*all versionsRunning onNetApp
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDVulnerableNetApp
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h500s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*all versionsRunning onNetApp
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDVulnerableNetApp
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h700s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*all versionsRunning onNetApp
  • cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.0.0 to before 3.0.12; 3.1.0 to before 3.1.4 Vulnerable ·OpenSSL
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 12.0 Vulnerable ·Debian
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h300s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions all versions Running on ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h410s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions all versions Running on ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h500s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions all versions Running on ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h700s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions all versions Running on ·NetApp
Show 2 more CPE
CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDVulnerableNetApp
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h410c:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDRunning onNetApp
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·NetApp
  • cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h410c:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Running on ·NetApp

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA OpenSSL (OpenSSL) Fixed in 3.0.12, 3.1.4

Red Hat 4 advisories

  • RHSA-2024:2094 Released 2024-05-01 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    security update Logging for Red Hat OpenShift - 5.8.6
    • RHOL 5.8 for RHEL 9 openshift-logging/cluster-logging-operator-bundle, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel9-operator, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-operator-bundle +14
  • RHSA-2024:1383 Released 2024-03-19 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.15.0 security, enhancement, & bug fix update
    • RHODF 4.15 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, odf4/mcg-operator-bundle +23
  • RHSA-2024:0500 Released 2024-01-25 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    openssl security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2) openssl-devel-1:3.0.7-18.el9_2, openssl-perl-1:3.0.7-18.el9_2
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2) openssl-1:3.0.7-18.el9_2, openssl-libs-1:3.0.7-18.el9_2
Show 1 more Red Hat advisories
  • RHSA-2024:0310 Released 2024-01-22 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    openssl security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) openssl-devel-1:3.0.7-25.el9_3, openssl-perl-1:3.0.7-25.el9_3
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) openssl-1:3.0.7-25.el9_3, openssl-libs-1:3.0.7-25.el9_3

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
RHODF 4.15 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2024:1383
RHOL 5.8 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2024:2094
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)Fixed RHSA-2024:0310
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)Fixed RHSA-2024:0500
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)Fixed RHSA-2024:0310
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)Fixed RHSA-2024:0500
Not affected: 7 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat JBoss Core Services
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-5363
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xw78-pcr6-wrg8
  3. 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the 90th–95th percentile

References

  • TI-2022-01915 The c_rehash script allows command injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-02645 SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2009-03392 The TLS protocol, and the SSL protocol 3.0 and possibly earlier, as used in Microsoft… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2022-01176 The c_rehash script allows command injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2014-00154 The (1) TLS and (2) DTLS implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1g do not properly… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-14107 Stack buffer overflow in CMS (Auth)EnvelopedData parsing CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
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