CVE-2014-9742
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.
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
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 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV: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 High
CVSS: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 High
CVSS: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
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
botan1.10Debian:7 |
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u1, plus listed versions 1.10.5-1 |
1.10.5-1+deb7u1 |
BotanSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 |
before 1.10.9-3.1 | 1.10.9-3.1 |
BotanSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 |
before 1.10.9-3.1 | 1.10.9-3.1 |
botan1.10Ubuntu: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
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE 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.
References
botan.randombit.net/security.html
marc.info?l=botan-devel&m=139717503205066&w=2
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9742
github.com/advisories/GHSA-m7rm-rc3m-vmq2
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171222-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1013209
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bugzilla.suse.com/1033605
bugzilla.suse.com/965620
bugzilla.suse.com/965621
bugzilla.suse.com/968025
bugzilla.suse.com/968026
bugzilla.suse.com/968030
bugzilla.suse.com/974521
bugzilla.suse.com/977420
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9742
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5726
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5727
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7827
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2194
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2195
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2849
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9132
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2801
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9742
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9742