GHSA-qq3j-44gw-cf6rHighCVSS 7.5

Eclipse Californium denial of service (DoS) via Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) handshake on parameter mismatch

Published
July 30, 2022
Last Modified
April 19, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

In Eclipse Californium versions 2.0.0 to 2.7.2 and 3.0.0-3.5.0 a DTLS resumption handshake falls back to a DTLS full handshake on a parameter mismatch without using a HelloVerifyRequest. Especially, if used with certificate based cipher suites, that results in message amplification (DDoS other peers) and high CPU load (DoS own peer). The misbehavior occurs only with DTLS_VERIFY_PEERS_ON_RESUMPTION_THRESHOLD values larger than 0.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.eclipse.californium:californium-core:>= 2.0.0, <= 2.7.2
  • maven/org.eclipse.californium:californium-core:>= 3.0.0, <= 3.5.0

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