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CVE-2024-27354

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-27354 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting phpseclib versions 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36, including Debian distributions. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious certificate with an excessively large prime number, causing significant CPU consumption during a primality check and leading to a denial of service. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) due to its network-based attack vector and high impact on availability, requiring no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:phpseclib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.47CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:phpseclib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:phpseclib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 22nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpseclib/phpseclibFixed in: 1.0.23
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpseclib/phpseclibFixed in: 2.0.47
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpseclib/phpseclibFixed in: 3.0.36

Vendor Advisories (2)

composerGHSA-2528-jw5q-ww88high

phpseclib: guardrails needed on isPrime and randomPrime

May 6, 2026
composerGHSA-hg35-mp25-qf6hhigh

Duplicate Advisory: phpseclib: guardrails needed on isPrime and randomPrime

Mar 2, 2024

References

gist.github.com / katzj/ee72f3c2a00590812b2ea3c0c8890e0b
Third Party Advisory
github.com / phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/master/phpseclib/Math/PrimeField.php
Product
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00003.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory