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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2024-1545 json

Fault Injection of RSA encryption in WolfCrypt

published 2024-08-29 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-17292

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Fault Injection vulnerability in RsaPrivateDecryption function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/rsa.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges via Rowhammer fault injection to the RsaKey structure.

Patch / fix

  • wolfssl Debian 13 5.7.0-0.3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-1545

  • wolfssl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 5.7.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-1545

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-1545 updated cvss 5.9

WolfSSL: Fault Injection vulnerability in RsaPrivateDecryption function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/rsa.c in WolfSSL

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • WolfSSL wolfCrypt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1256 Improper Restriction of Software Interfaces to Hardware Features
  • CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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