Security Advisory

CVE-2023-50981

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

ModularSquareRoot in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted DER public-key data associated with squared odd numbers, such as the square of 268995137513890432434389773128616504853.
Published Date December 18, 2023
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory