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TI-2024-26268 Aliases CVE-2024-39312

Botan has an Authorization Error due to Name Constraint Decoding Bug

Priority LOW 30CWE-295Published · Updated

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.

Summary

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. A bug in the parsing of name constraint extensions in X.509 certificates meant that if the extension included both permitted subtrees and excluded subtrees, only the permitted subtree would be checked. If a certificate included a name which was permitted by the permitted subtree but also excluded by excluded subtree, it would be accepted. Fixed in versions 3.5.0 and 2.19.5.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00272 19th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed botan (randombit): 2.19.5, 3.5.0

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
randombitbotanbefore 2.19.5; 3.0.0 to before 3.5.02.19.5, 3.5.0Patch availableCNA
  • botan Vendorrandombit Affected before 2.19.5; 3.0.0 to before 3.5.0 Fixed in 2.19.5, 3.5.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 2.19.5; 3.0.0 to before 3.5.0Vulnerablerandombit
  • cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 2.19.5; 3.0.0 to before 3.5.0 Vulnerable ·randombit

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA botan (randombit) Fixed in 2.19.5, 3.5.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-39312

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2024-33818 Botan before 3.6.0, when certain GCC versions are used, has a compiler-induced… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
  • TI-2024-33817 Botan before 3.6.0, when certain LLVM versions are used, has compiler-induced… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
  • TI-2016-02004 Integer overflow in the PointGFp constructor in Botan before 1.10.11 and 1.11.x before… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2016-02005 Heap-based buffer overflow in the P-521 reduction function in Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.27… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-26828 Botan has a certificate authentication bypass due to trust anchor confusion CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2016-07479 In Botan 1.8.0 through 1.11.33, when decoding BER data an integer overflow could occur… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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