CVE-2016-6879 in Botan

Summary

The X509_Certificate::allowed_usage function in botan 1.11.x before 1.11.31 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call with more than one Key_Usage set in the enum value.

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• Reservation: 08/18/2016
• Disclosure: 04/10/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-99547 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-320 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.5
• EPSS: 0.00185
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6879
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6879
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-6879/