CVE-2015-5726 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the BER decoder in Botan versions 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19, including Debian distributions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an application crash by submitting ASN.1 data containing an empty BIT STRING. With a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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