liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
History

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First Time appeared Open Quantum Safe
Open Quantum Safe liboqs
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:open_quantum_safe:liboqs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Open Quantum Safe
Open Quantum Safe liboqs
Metrics ssvc

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Description liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
Title liboqs has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation
Weaknesses CWE-200
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-12-06T16:00:58.061Z

Updated: 2024-12-10T16:10:59.900Z

Reserved: 2024-11-29T18:02:16.755Z

Link: CVE-2024-54137

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-12-10T16:10:51.922Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2024-12-06T16:15:22.637

Modified: 2024-12-06T16:15:22.637

Link: CVE-2024-54137

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2024-12-06T16:00:58Z

Links: CVE-2024-54137 - Bugzilla