CVE-2022-23001

MEDIUM

Westerndigital Sweet B - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

When compressing or decompressing elliptic curve points using the Sweet B library, an incorrect choice of sign bit is used. An attacker with user level privileges and no other user's assistance can exploit this vulnerability with only knowledge of the public key and the library. The resulting output may cause an error when used in other operations; for instance, verification of a valid signature under a decompressed public key may fail. This may be leveraged by an attacker to cause an error scenario in applications which use the library, resulting in a limited denial of service for an individual user. The scope of impact cannot extend to other components.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-682
Status published

Affected Products (1)

westerndigital/sweet_b

Timeline

Published Jul 29, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026