CVE-2024-54137 — liboqs has a correctness error in HQC decapsulation
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference impl…
Published: 2024-12-06 · CVSS: 7.4 · CVSS 3.1
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7