CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-3738

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Dec 07, 2017 | Modified: Aug 19, 2022
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.9 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. 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 DH1024 are considered just feasible, 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 significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701. This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions like Intel Haswell (4th generation). Note: The impact from this issue is similar to CVE-2017-3736, CVE-2017-3732 and CVE-2015-3193. OpenSSL version 1.0.2-1.0.2m and 1.1.0-1.1.0g are affected. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2n. Due to the low severity of this issue we are not issuing a new release of OpenSSL 1.1.0 at this time. The fix will be included in OpenSSL 1.1.0h when it becomes available. The fix is also available in commit e502cc86d in the OpenSSL git repository.

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) 1.0.2 (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2-beta1 (including) 1.0.2-beta1 (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2-beta2 (including) 1.0.2-beta2 (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2-beta3 (including) 1.0.2-beta3 (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2a (including) 1.0.2a (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2b (including) 1.0.2b (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2c (including) 1.0.2c (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2d (including) 1.0.2d (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2e (including) 1.0.2e (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2f (including) 1.0.2f (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2g (including) 1.0.2g (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2h (including) 1.0.2h (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2i (including) 1.0.2i (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2j (including) 1.0.2j (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2k (including) 1.0.2k (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2l (including) 1.0.2l (including)
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2m (including) 1.0.2m (including)
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 7 RedHat openssl-1:1.0.2k-12.el7 *
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 RedHat openssl *
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 *
Openssl1.0 Ubuntu upstream *

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