CVE-2022-37454

critical

Description

The Keccak XKCP SHA-3 reference implementation before fdc6fef has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or eliminate expected cryptographic properties. This occurs in the sponge function interface.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5269

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5267

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281106

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMIEXLMTW5GO36HTFFWIPB3OHZXCT3G4/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ALQ6BDDPX5HU5YBQOBMDVAA2TSGDKIJ/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00000.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00041.html

https://github.com/XKCP/XKCP/security/advisories/GHSA-6w4m-2xhg-2658

https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions/sha-3-project

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-02

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050307

https://mouha.be/sha-3-buffer-overflow/

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/331

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-10-21

Updated: 2025-05-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01202