Security Advisory

CVE-2023-50980

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

gf2n.cpp in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via DER public-key data for an F(2^m) curve, if the degree of each term in the polynomial is not strictly decreasing.
Published Date December 18, 2023
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory