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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2023-6237

DiscoveredApr 25, 2024UpdatedMay 12, 2026

Issue summary: Checking excessively long invalid RSA public keys may take a long time. Impact summary: Applications that use the function EVP_PKEY_public_check() to check RSA public keys may experience long delays. Where the key that is being checked has been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service. When function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is called on RSA public keys, a computation is done to confirm that the RSA modulus, n, is composite. For valid RSA keys, n is a product of two or more large primes and this computation completes quickly. However, if n is an overly large prime, then this computation would take a long time. An application that calls EVP_PKEY_public_check() and supplies an RSA key obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a…

CVSS v3.1
5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS
2.30%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityHIGH
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
3 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Apr 25, 2024
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD May 12, 2026
Nov 26, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7894-1: EDK II vulnerabilities
Nov 28, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7894-2: EDK II regression