Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow.

Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex()
or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters may experience long
delays. Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained
from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service.

The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. After fixing
CVE-2023-3446 it was discovered that a large q parameter value can also trigger
an overly long computation during some of these checks. A correct q value,
if present, cannot be larger than the modulus p parameter, thus it is
unnecessary to perform these checks if q is larger than p.

An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained
from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.

The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions.
An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected.
The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and
EVP_PKEY_param_check().

Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam command line applications
when using the "-check" option.

The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue.

The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this issue.
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Weaknesses CWE-606

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-05T15:53:49.014Z

Reserved: 2023-07-21T08:47:25.638Z

Link: CVE-2023-3817

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:08:50.496Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-31T16:15:10.497

Modified: 2025-05-05T16:15:47.343

Link: CVE-2023-3817

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-3817 - Bugzilla

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