CVE-2024-54137
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. A correctness error has been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism. Due to an indexing error, part of the secret key is incorrectly treated as non-secret data. This results in an incorrect shared secret value being returned when the decapsulation function is called with a malformed ciphertext. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.12.0.
Published:Dec 6, 2024
Last Modified:Aug 20, 2025
EPS:Dec 6, 2024
EPSS Score:0.00113
CVSS Score:7.4
Affected Products
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Open Quantum Safe
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Liboqs
Open Quantum Safe
Liboqs
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Openquantumsafe
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Liboqs
Openquantumsafe
Liboqs
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