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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/security/advisories/GHSA-gpf4-vrrw-r8v7
Scores
CVSS v3
7.4
EPSS
0.0043
EPSS Percentile
62.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (1)
openquantumsafe/liboqs
< 0.12.0
Published
Dec 06, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026