CVE record · CVE-2023-6237

Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys

CVSS 5.9 MediumEPSS 0.023 · 83rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: openssl) at 25 Apr 2024, 06:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
OpenSSL OpenSSL
  • affected 3.0.0 to before 3.0.13 semver
  • affected 3.1.0 to before 3.1.5 semver
  • affected 3.2.0 to before 3.2.1 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-6237
CNA
openssl
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-606
Published
25 Apr 2024
Updated
14 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.9 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.023, the 83rd percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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