CVE-2024-28285 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A Fault Injection vulnerability in the SymmetricDecrypt function in cryptopp/elgamal.h of Cryptopp Crypto++ 8.9, allows an attacker to co-reside in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Cryptopp	Crypto\+\+

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References

Link	Providers
https://gist.github.com/liang-junkai/3e91f58070812ea76c1b8c126c3e28c7

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00151}`	epss `{'score': 0.00155}`

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Cryptopp Cryptopp crypto\+\+
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:cryptopp:crypto\+\+:8.9.0:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Cryptopp Cryptopp crypto\+\+
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-209 CWE-285
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-05-13T19:07:16.320Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:47:36.779Z

Reserved: 2024-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-28285

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:48:49.773Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-14T15:14:19.427

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:06:08.497

Link: CVE-2024-28285

Redhat

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