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CVE-2014-9742

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses...

7.5 HighFix available

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

1.43%Up 0.4 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Record
CVE-2014-9742
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-310
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Record
CVE-2014-9742
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-9548 No score

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Record
EUVD-2014-9548
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-m7rm-rc3m-vmq2 7.5

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses...

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Record
GHSA-m7rm-rc3m-vmq2
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-9742 7.5

The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9742
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1222-1 No score

Security update for Botan

This update for Botan to version 1.10.9 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2015-5726: The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data (bsc#968025).
  • CVE-2015-5727: The BER decoder in Botan 1.10.x allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to a length field (bsc#968026).
  • CVE-2015-7827: Botan make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding (bsc#968030).
  • CVE-2016-2849: Botan do not use a constant-time algorithm to perform a modular inverse on the signature nonce k, which might allowed remote attackers to obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel attack (bsc#977420).
  • CVE-2016-9132: In Botan 1.8.0 when decoding BER data an integer overflow could occur, which would cause an incorrect length field to be computed. Some API callers may use the returned (incorrect and attacker controlled) length field in a way which later caused memory corruption or other failure (bsc#1013209).
  • CVE-2016-2194: The ressol function in Botan allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified input to the OS2ECP function, related to a composite modulus (bsc#965621).
  • CVE-2016-2195: Integer overflow in the PointGFp constructor in Botan allowed remote attackers to overwrite memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ECC point, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow (bsc#965620).
  • CVE-2017-2801: Incorrect comparison in X.509 DN strings (bsc#1033605).
  • CVE-2014-9742: The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan improperly used a single random base, which made it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group (bsc#974521).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • Fixed EAX tag verification to run in constant time
  • The default TLS policy now disables SSLv3.
  • A crash could have occured when reading from a blocking random device if the device initially indicated that entropy was available but a concurrent process drained the entropy pool before the read was initiated.
  • Fixed decoding indefinite length BER constructs that contain a context sensitive tag of zero.
  • The key length limit on HMAC has been raised to 512 bytes, allowing the use of very long passphrases with PBKDF2.
  • OAEP had two bugs, one of which allowed it to be used even if the key was too small, and the other of which would cause a crash during decryption if the EME data was too large for the associated key.
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1222-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
botan1.10
Debian:7
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u1, plus listed versions
1.10.5-1
1.10.5-1+deb7u1
Botan
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
before 1.10.9-3.1
1.10.9-3.1
Botan
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 1.10.9-3.1
1.10.9-3.1
botan1.10
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1.10.5-11.10.5-1ubuntu1
1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2014-9742 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Botan Project Botan, published April 30, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.43%, the 73rd percentile. Fixed in botan1.10 1.10.5-1+deb7u1.

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