- Description
- liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
- NVD status
- Received
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 7.4
- Impact score
- 5.2
- Exploitability score
- 2.2
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Severity
- HIGH
- security-advisories@github.com
- CWE-200
- Hype score
- Not currently trending