CVE-2023-29409

MEDIUMNVD 5.35.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2023-08-02. NVD baseline CVSS 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2023-32978 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xc82-5m89-g4jv (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.6%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
5.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
24
EG Risk 24/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity53% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
1.6%
EPSS %ILE
75th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 2, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

References (6)

Patch Availability(30)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatcontainer-tools:rhel8-8100020240227110532.828888972024-05-22redhat
redhatodf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.15.0-372024-03-19redhat
redhatmta/mta-windup-addon-rhel9:6.2.2-32024-02-28redhat
redhatmicroshift-0:4.14.10-202401181720.p0.gd25a4c5.assembly.4.14.10.el92024-01-23redhat
redhatopenshift-0:4.14.0-202401121302.p0.ge36e183.assembly.stream.el82024-01-23redhat
redhatcontainer-tools:4.0-8090020231207142256.d7b6f4b72024-01-10redhat
redhatcontainernetworking-plugins-1:1.3.0-6.el9_32023-12-12redhat
redhatbuildah-1:1.31.3-2.el9_32023-12-12redhat
redhatrunc-4:1.1.9-2.el9_32023-12-12redhat
redhatskopeo-2:1.13.3-3.el9_32023-12-12redhat
redhatpodman-2:4.6.1-7.el9_32023-12-12redhat
redhatcert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9:v1.11.5-52023-11-15redhat
redhatopenshift-clients-0:4.14.0-202311031050.p0.g9b1e0d2.assembly.stream.el82023-11-15redhat
redhatlvms4/topolvm-rhel9:v4.14.1-22023-11-09redhat
redhatopenshift-serverless-clients-0:1.9.2-4.el82023-11-03redhat
redhatopenshift-serverless-1-tech-preview/logic-swf-devmode-rhel8:1.30.0-92023-11-02redhat
redhatrunc-4:1.1.9-2.1.rhaos4.14.el82023-10-31redhat
redhatrhmtc/openshift-velero-plugin-rhel8:v1.7.14-32023-10-30redhat
redhatopenshift-secondary-scheduler-operator/secondary-scheduler-operator-rhel8:v1.1-372023-10-26redhat
redhatrun-once-duration-override-operator/run-once-duration-override-rhel8:v1.0-302023-10-26redhat
redhatoadp/oadp-velero-rhel8:1.1.7-62023-10-25redhat
redhatmigration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-rhel8-operator:2.4.3-32023-10-25redhat
redhatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-rhel8-operator:2.3.1-112023-10-23redhat
redhatstf/smart-gateway-rhel8-operator:5.0.1-92023-10-20redhat
redhatopenshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel8:v2.9.2-12023-10-20redhat
redhatcollectd-libpod-stats-0:1.0.5-6.el9ost2023-10-20redhat
redhatetcd-0:3.3.23-15.el8ost2023-10-20redhat
redhatnetwork-observability/network-observability-rhel9-operator:v1.4.0-512023-10-20redhat
redhatrhosp-rhel9/osp-director-operator-bundle:1.3.1-182023-10-20redhat
redhatcollectd-libpod-stats-0:1.0.4-5.el8ost2023-10-20redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
golang-1.151.15.15-1 ... 1.15.9-6 (10 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
golang-1.191.19.10-1 ... 1.19.9-1 (12 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
stdlib—
  • every version up to 1.19.12: fixed in 1.19.12
  • 1.20.0-0 up to 1.20.7: fixed in 1.20.7
  • 1.21.0-0 up to 1.21.0-rc.4: fixed in 1.21.0-rc.4
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 36× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 95 of 210 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 5 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 115 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  11. 2026-10-24 14:52 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-24 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xc82-5m89-g4jv · GitHub CVSS 5.3
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-29409?
CVE-2023-29409 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 2, 2023. Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-29409 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-29409 was published on August 2, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-29409 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-29409 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (75th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-29409?
CVE-2023-29409 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-29409?
A fix for CVE-2023-29409 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-29409 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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