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CVE-2024-12797 Detail

Description

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/4
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/738d4f9fdeaad57660dcba50a619fafced3fd5e9
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/798779d43494549b611233f92652f0da5328fbe7
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/87ebd203feffcf92ad5889df92f90bb0ee10a699
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20250211.txt
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0001/

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-392 Missing Report of Error Condition OpenSSL Software Foundation  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-12797
NVD Published Date:
02/11/2025
NVD Last Modified:
02/18/2025
Source:
OpenSSL Software Foundation