CVE-2017-3738

Node.js 4 and 1 other: There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with…

CVE-2017-3738 is fixed in 4 products on 2 platforms, first by Node.js 4 4.8.7, released December 7, 2017. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

RoutineFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
5.9
Low
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.1341
96th percentile

There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH1024 are considered just feasible, because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be significant. However, for an attack on TLS to be meaningful, the server would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701. This only affects processors that support the AVX2 but not ADX extensions like Intel Haswell (4th generation). Note: The impact from this issue is similar to CVE-2017-3736, CVE-2017-3732 and CVE-2015-3193. OpenSSL version 1.0.2-1.0.2m and 1.1.0-1.1.0g are affected. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2n. Due to the low severity of this issue we are not issuing a new release of OpenSSL 1.1.0 at this time. The fix will be included in OpenSSL 1.1.0h when it becomes available. The fix is also available in commit e502cc86d in the OpenSSL git repository.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Node.js 4 4.8.7 Node.js 4 4.8.7 Dec 7, 2017
Node.js 6 6.12.2 Node.js 6 6.12.2 Dec 7, 2017
Linux
libssl1.1 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.0g-2ubuntu3 libssl1.1 1.1.0g-2ubuntu3 Mar 26, 2018
openssl · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.0g-2ubuntu3 openssl 1.1.0g-2ubuntu3 Mar 26, 2018