Upstream information

CVE-2021-24115 at MITRE

Description

In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and hex).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 9.8 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1182670 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1
  • Botan >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
  • Botan-doc >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
  • libbotan-2-10 >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
  • libbotan-2-10-32bit >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-2-10-64bit >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
  • libbotan-devel >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
  • libbotan-devel-32bit >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-devel-64bit >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
  • python3-botan >= 2.10.0-bp151.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2021-765
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2
  • Botan >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
  • Botan-doc >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
  • libbotan-2-10 >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
  • libbotan-2-10-32bit >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-2-10-64bit >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
  • libbotan-devel >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
  • libbotan-devel-32bit >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-devel-64bit >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
  • python3-botan >= 2.10.0-bp152.4.6.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2021-765
openSUSE-2021-794
openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • Botan >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • Botan-doc >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-2-10 >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-2-10-32bit >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-devel >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • libbotan-devel-32bit >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
  • python3-botan >= 2.10.0-lp152.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2021-765

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Feb 22 12:17:49 2021
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 19:29:31 2025