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CVE-2023-50979

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-203

Description

Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 8.9.0 has a Marvin side channel during decryption with PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.

Affected products

• Cryptopp Crypto++: through 8.9.0

References

• https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1247
• https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1247

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