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CVE-2022-37026

Published: 21 September 2022

In Erlang/OTP before 23.3.4.15, 24.x before 24.3.4.2, and 25.x before 25.0.2, there is a Client Authentication Bypass in certain client-certification situations for SSL, TLS, and DTLS.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that Erlang did not properly implement TLS client certificate validation during the TLS handshake. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass client authentication.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
only an issue when client certificates are used

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
erlang
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal
Released (1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2)
jammy
Released (1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1)
kinetic
Released (1:24.3.4.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1)
lunar
Released (1:24.3.4.5+dfsg-1)
trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/cd5024867e7b7d3a6e94194af9e01e1fb77e36c9 (23.x)
upstream: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/6a1baa36e4e6c1b682e8b48e0c141602e0b8e6e5 (23.x)
upstream: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/254f2728902bc7e80a67726ebbc1a0b3ab7742eb (24.x)
upstream: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/33e7570e075e0b84efef91b2f307fcf938517b1c (24.x)
opensuse: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/SUSE:SLE-15-SP3:Update/erlang/CVE-2022-37026-client-auth-bypass.patch?expand=1 (22.x)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H