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CVE-2022-40735
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-11-14T23:15:11.423 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:01:56.980

Summary

The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows use of long exponents that arguably make certain calculations unnecessarily expensive, because the 1996 van Oorschot and Wiener paper found that "(appropriately) short exponents" can be used when there are adequate subgroup constraints, and these short exponents can lead to less expensive calculations than for long exponents. This issue is different from CVE-2002-20001 because it is based on an observation about exponent size, rather than an observation about numbers that are not public keys. The specific situations in which calculation expense would constitute a server-side vulnerability depend on the protocol (e.g., TLS, SSH, or IKE) and the DHE implementation details. In general, there might be an availability concern because of server-si

Affected products

diffie-hellman_key_exchange_project — diffie-hellman_key_exchange

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References

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