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critical 9.8

CVE-2024-28285 json

A Fault Injection vulnerability in the SymmetricDecrypt function in cryptopp/elgamal.h of Cryptopp Crypto++ 8.9, allows an attacker to co-r…

published 2024-05-13 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-25384

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Fault Injection vulnerability in the SymmetricDecrypt function in cryptopp/elgamal.h of Cryptopp Crypto++ 8.9, allows an attacker to co-reside in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges.

Patch / fix

  • libcryptopp SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.6.5-150000.1.15.1
  • libcryptopp SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +10 more 8.6.0-150400.3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:01939-1SUSE-SU-2025:01816-1

  • libcryptopp openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.9.0-4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15627-1

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-2024-28285 updated

cryptopp: potential leak of secret key of ElGamal encryption via fault injection

  • 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

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • cryptopp crypto\+\+

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization
  • CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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