Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2023-5363

Issue summary: A bug has been identified in the processing of key and initialisation vector (IV) lengths.

Published Oct 25, 2023 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · Issue summary: A bug

Last checked Nov 4, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

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No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2023-5363. EPSS is 3.94%. Act only if a listed version of Issue summary: A bug is installed.

Severity

High7.5

Known exploitation

Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV

EPSS

3.94%

Remediation

Version ranges on file

Affected products

cpe debian/debian linux · cpe netapp/h300s firmware · cpe netapp/h410s firmware · cpe netapp/h500s firmware · cpe openssl/openssl

Issue summary: A bug has been identified in the processing of key and initialisation vector (IV) lengths. This can lead to potential truncation or overruns during the initialisation of some symmetric ciphers. Impact summary: A truncation in the IV can result in non-uniqueness, which could result in loss of confidentiality for some cipher modes. When calling EVP_EncryptInit_ex2(), EVP_DecryptInit_ex2() or EVP_CipherInit_ex2() the provided OSSL_PARAM array is processed after the key and IV have been established. Any alterations to the key length, via the "keylen" parameter or the IV length, via the "ivlen" parameter, within the OSSL_PARAM array will not take effect as intended, potentially causing truncation or overreading of these values. The following ciphers and cipher modes are impacted: RC2, RC4, RC5, CCM, GCM and OCB. For the CCM, GCM and OCB cipher modes, truncation of the IV can result in loss of confidentiality. For example, when following NIST's SP 800-38D section 8.2.1 guidance for constructing a deterministic IV for AES in GCM mode, truncation of the counter portion could lead to IV reuse. Both truncations and overruns of the key and overruns of the IV will produce incorrect results and could, in some cases, trigger a memory exception. However, these issues are not currently assessed as security critical. Changing the key and/or IV lengths is not considered to be a common operation and the vulnerable API was recently introduced. Furthermore it is likely that application developers will have spotted this problem during testing since decryption would fail unless both peers in the communication were similarly vulnerable. For these reasons we expect the probability of an application being vulnerable to this to be quite low. However if an application is vulnerable then this issue is considered very serious. For these reasons we have assessed this issue as Moderate severity overall. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL 3.