CVE-2022-40735

The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows use of long exponents that arguably make certain calculations unnecessarily expensive, because the 1996 van Oorschot and Wiener paper found that "(appropriately) short exponents" can be used when there are adequate subgroup constraints, and these short exponents can lead to less expensive calculations than for long exponents. This issue is different from CVE-2002-20001 because it is based on an observation about exponent size, rather than an observation about numbers that are not public keys. The specific situations in which calculation expense would constitute a server-side vulnerability depend on the protocol (e.g., TLS, SSH, or IKE) and the DHE implementation details. In general, there might be an availability concern because of server-side resource consumption from DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. Finally, it is possible for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and CVE-2002-20001 together.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:diffie-hellman_key_exchange_project:diffie-hellman_key_exchange:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

23 Apr 2024, 07:15

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References
  • () https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10374117 -

11 Jan 2024, 03:15

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References
  • () https://dheatattack.gitlab.io/ -

21 Nov 2022, 22:15

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References
  • (MISC) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7919#section-5.2 -
  • (MISC) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5114#section-4 -
  • (MISC) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelist/9d7fbbcabd3f44cfedc9e8807757d31ece85a2c6/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40735.json -
  • (MISC) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3526 -
  • (MISC) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4419 -
Summary Using long exponents in the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to trigger unnecessarily expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. An attacker may cause asymmetric resource consumption with any common client application which uses a DHE implementation that applies short exponents. The attack may be more disruptive in cases where a client sends arbitrary numbers that are actually not DH public keys (aka the D(HE)ater attack) or can require a server to select its largest supported key size. The basic attack scenario is that the client must claim that it can only communicate with DHE, and the server must be configured to allow DHE. This can affect TLS, SSH, and IKE. The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows use of long exponents that arguably make certain calculations unnecessarily expensive, because the 1996 van Oorschot and Wiener paper found that "(appropriately) short exponents" can be used when there are adequate subgroup constraints, and these short exponents can lead to less expensive calculations than for long exponents. This issue is different from CVE-2002-20001 because it is based on an observation about exponent size, rather than an observation about numbers that are not public keys. The specific situations in which calculation expense would constitute a server-side vulnerability depend on the protocol (e.g., TLS, SSH, or IKE) and the DHE implementation details. In general, there might be an availability concern because of server-side resource consumption from DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. Finally, it is possible for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and CVE-2002-20001 together.

18 Nov 2022, 21:28

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:diffie-hellman_key_exchange_project:diffie-hellman_key_exchange:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (MISC) https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-57pt1r5.pdf - (MISC) https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-57pt1r5.pdf - Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
References (MISC) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-540-68339-9_29.pdf - (MISC) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-540-68339-9_29.pdf - Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/mozilla/ssl-config-generator/issues/162 - (MISC) https://github.com/mozilla/ssl-config-generator/issues/162 - Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anton-Stiglic-2/publication/2401745_Security_Issues_in_the_Diffie-Hellman_Key_Agreement_Protocol/links/546c144f0cf20dedafd53e7e/Security-Issues-in-the-Diffie-Hellman-Key-Agreement-Protocol.pdf - (MISC) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anton-Stiglic-2/publication/2401745_Security_Issues_in_the_Diffie-Hellman_Key_Agreement_Protocol/links/546c144f0cf20dedafd53e7e/Security-Issues-in-the-Diffie-Hellman-Key-Agreement-Protocol.pdf - Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://gist.github.com/c0r0n3r/9455ddcab985c50fd1912eabf26e058b - (MISC) https://gist.github.com/c0r0n3r/9455ddcab985c50fd1912eabf26e058b - Third Party Advisory
First Time Diffie-hellman Key Exchange Project
Diffie-hellman Key Exchange Project diffie-hellman Key Exchange
CWE CWE-400
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5

14 Nov 2022, 23:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2022-11-14 23:15

Updated : 2024-04-23 07:15


NVD link : CVE-2022-40735

Mitre link : CVE-2022-40735

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-40735


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Products Affected

diffie-hellman_key_exchange_project

  • diffie-hellman_key_exchange
CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption