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GHSA-2528-JW5Q-WW88

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-06 17:57 – Updated: 2026-05-06 17:57

Summary

phpseclib: guardrails needed on isPrime and randomPrime

Details

Impact

Anyone trying to generate a prime and testing the primality of a number.

Patches

https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/commit/ad5dbdf2129f5e0fb644637770b7f33de8ca8575

Workarounds

Using the GMP extension would probably help, assuming that one has its own guardrails.

Resources

https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/commit/ad5dbdf2129f5e0fb644637770b7f33de8ca8575 https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity25/sec25cycle1-prepub-599-shi-bing.pdf

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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}

CVE-2024-27354 (GCVE-0-2024-27354)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-01 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:44

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpseclib 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36. An attacker can construct a malformed certificate containing an extremely large prime to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for an isPrime primality check). NOTE: this issue was introduced when attempting to fix CVE-2023-27560.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-03-06 15:59 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/maste…
https://gist.github.com/katzj/ee72f3c2a00590812b2…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…	mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…	mailing-list

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
phpseclib	1x	Affected: 0 , < 1.0.23 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:1x::::::::
phpseclib	2x	Affected: 0 , < 2.0.47 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:2x::::::::
phpseclib	3x	Affected: 0 , < 3.0.36 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:3x::::::::

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