CVE-2023-36660

critical

Description

The OCB feature in libnettle in Nettle 3.9 before 3.9.1 allows memory corruption.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24

https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/compare/nettle_3.9_release_20230514...nettle_3.9.1_release_20230601

https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/commit/867a4548b95705291a3afdd66d76e7f17ba2618f

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-40604

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212112

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-25

Updated: 2026-10-15

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01023