CVE-2006-2940 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2006-2940

OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions...

Vulnerability Description

OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via parasitic public keys with large (1) "public exponent" or (2) "public modulus" values in X.509 certificates that require extra time to process when using RSA signature verification.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

openssl
Vulnerable Versions:
0.9.1c, 0.9.2b, 0.9.3, 0.9.3a, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.5a, 0.9.6, 0.9.6a, 0.9.6b, 0.9.6c, 0.9.6d, 0.9.6e, 0.9.6f, 0.9.6g, 0.9.6h, 0.9.6i, 0.9.6j, 0.9.6k, 0.9.6l, 0.9.6m, 0.9.7, 0.9.7a, 0.9.7b, 0.9.7c, 0.9.7d, 0.9.7e, 0.9.7f, 0.9.7g, 0.9.7h, 0.9.7i, 0.9.7j, 0.9.7k, 0.9.8, 0.9.8a, 0.9.8b, 0.9.8c

Timeline

Official Publish: September 28th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.