CVE-2024-6119

HIGH

Openssl < 3.0.15 - Type Confusion

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Issue summary: Applications performing certificate name checks (e.g., TLS clients checking server certificates) may attempt to read an invalid memory address resulting in abnormal termination of the application process. Impact summary: Abnormal termination of an application can a cause a denial of service. Applications performing certificate name checks (e.g., TLS clients checking server certificates) may attempt to read an invalid memory address when comparing the expected name with an `otherName` subject alternative name of an X.509 certificate. This may result in an exception that terminates the application program. Note that basic certificate chain validation (signatures, dates, ...) is not affected, the denial of service can occur only when the application also specifies an expected DNS name, Email address or IP address. TLS servers rarely solicit client certificates, and even when they do, they generally don't perform a name check against a reference identifier (expected identity), but rather extract the presented identity after checking the certificate chain. So TLS servers are generally not affected and the severity of the issue is Moderate. The FIPS modules in 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0655
EPSS Percentile 91.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-843
Status published
Products (19)
netapp/500f_firmware
netapp/a250_firmware
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager
netapp/bootstrap_os
netapp/brocade_fabric_operating_system
netapp/c250_firmware
netapp/h300s_firmware
netapp/h410c_firmware
netapp/h410s_firmware
netapp/h500s_firmware
... and 9 more
Published Sep 03, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026