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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2018-0733 json

Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC

published 2018-03-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-1543

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.3%
EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0h (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0g).

Patch / fix

  • openssl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.0h-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0733

  • openssl Alpine 3.8, Alpine 3.7, Alpine 3.6 +3 more 1.0.2o-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-0733

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2018-0733 updated cvss 4.8

openssl: Implementation bug in PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function allows attackers to forge authenticated messages in a reduced number of attempts

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl, openssl097a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl, openssl098e, openssl-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OVMF, openssl, openssl098e, openssl-libs, openssl-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 openssl, openssl-libs, openssl-perl Red Hat JBoss Core Services jbcs-httpd24-openssl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 openssl
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 openssl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 openssl Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 openssl
    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

Exploit prediction

8.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • OpenSSL OpenSSL

Classification

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