VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9742

high
Published 2016-05-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
botan_projectbotan{"endIncluding":"1.10.7"}
botan_projectbotan1.11.0
botan_projectbotan1.11.1
botan_projectbotan1.11.2
botan_projectbotan1.11.3
botan_projectbotan1.11.4
botan_projectbotan1.11.5
botan_projectbotan1.11.6
botan_projectbotan1.11.7
botan_projectbotan1.11.8

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.