CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-3736

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Nov 02, 2017 | Modified: Apr 23, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.9 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private key that is shared between multiple clients. This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2m (excluding)
Openssl Openssl 1.1.0 (including) 1.1.0g (excluding)
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-0:1.1.0-1.redhat_2.1.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-jsvc-1:1.1.0-1.redhat_2.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apr-0:1.6.3-14.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-9.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.29-17.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_auth_kerb-0:5.4-36.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_bmx-0:0.9.6-17.GA.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.8-1.Final_redhat_2.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.43-1.redhat_1.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_rt-0:2.4.1-19.GA.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.1-23.GA.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.29.0-8.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.0.2n-11.jbcs.el6 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-0:1.1.0-1.redhat_2.1.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-jsvc-1:1.1.0-1.redhat_2.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apr-0:1.6.3-14.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-9.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.29-17.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_auth_kerb-0:5.4-36.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_bmx-0:0.9.6-17.GA.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.8-1.Final_redhat_2.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.43-1.redhat_1.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_rt-0:2.4.1-19.GA.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.1-23.GA.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.29.0-8.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.0.2n-11.jbcs.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el6_10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat openssl-1:1.0.2k-12.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary RedHat java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7 *
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 RedHat openssl *
Red Hat Satellite 5.8 RedHat java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el6_10 *
Openssl Ubuntu artful *
Openssl Ubuntu bionic *
Openssl Ubuntu cosmic *
Openssl Ubuntu devel *
Openssl Ubuntu disco *
Openssl Ubuntu upstream *
Openssl Ubuntu xenial *
Openssl Ubuntu zesty *
Openssl098 Ubuntu trusty *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References