Medium 5.0Published Jan 8, 2015

CVE-2014-3570The BN_sqr implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not properly calculate the square of a BIGNUM value, which might make it easier for remote attac…

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The BN_sqr implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not properly calculate the square of a BIGNUM value, which might make it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors, related to crypto/bn/asm/mips.pl, crypto/bn/asm/x86_64-gcc.c, and crypto/bn/bn_asm.c.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-310
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

openssl openssl openssl:openssl	through 0.9.8zc; 1.0.0a; 1.0.0b; 1.0.0c; 1.0.0d; 1.0.0e; 1.0.0f; 1.0.0g; and 18 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10679
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147938.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148363.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142496179803395&w=2
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