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CVE-2022-3616
OctoRPKI crash when maximum iterations number is reached
Medium5.4EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- cloudflare
Description
Attackers can create long chains of CAs that would lead to OctoRPKI exceeding its max iterations parameter. In consequence it would cause the program to crash, preventing it from finishing the validation and leading to a denial of service. Credits to Donika Mirdita and Haya Shulman - Fraunhofer SIT, ATHENE, who discovered and reported this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| cloudflareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < <1.4.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/cloudflare/cfrpkiGHSA-pmw9-567p-68pc (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pmw9-567p-68pc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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