🛡️ CVE-2022-37454
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-190 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Keccak XKCP SHA-3 reference implementation before fdc6fef has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or eliminate expected cryptographic properties. This occurs in the sponge function interface.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-21
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-05-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
extended-keccak-code-package
fedora
libphp
libpython
php
php-min
pypy 7.0.0
pysha3
python
python-min
sha3 1.0.5

References

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions/sha-3-project
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://mouha.be/sha-3-buffer-overflow/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281106
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions/sha-3-project
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://mouha.be/sha-3-buffer-overflow/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281106

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