CVE-2024-12797
February 11, 2025
Issue summary: Clients using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) to authenticate a
server may fail to notice that the server was not authenticated, because
handshakes don't abort as expected when the SSL_VERIFY_PEER verification mode
is set.
Impact summary: TLS and DTLS connections using raw public keys may be
vulnerable to man-in-middle attacks when server authentication failure is not
detected by clients.
RPKs are disabled by default in both TLS clients and TLS servers. The issue
only arises when TLS clients explicitly enable RPK use by the server, and the
server, likewise, enables sending of an RPK instead of an X.509 certificate
chain. The affected clients are those that then rely on the handshake to
fail when the server's RPK fails to match one of the expected public keys,
by setting the verification mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER.
Clients that enable server-side raw public keys can still find out that raw
public key verification failed by calling SSL_get_verify_result(), and those
that do, and take appropriate action, are not affected. This issue was
introduced in the initial implementation of RPK support in OpenSSL 3.2.
The FIPS modules in 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.
Affected Packages
openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) =3.4.0 <3.4.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.4.1openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.2.0 <3.2.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.2.4openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.3.1 <3.3.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.3.3https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.2.0 <openssl-3.2.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.2.4https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.3.0 <openssl-3.3.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.3.3https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) =openssl-3.4.0 <openssl-3.4.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.4.1cryptography (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=42.0.0 <44.0.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 44.0.1Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
4.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
EPSS
Base Score:
1.3