VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-54137

CVSS score7.4 HIGH
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-12-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-200

Primary references