Bug 2270270 (CVE-2024-26306)

Summary:	CVE-2024-26306 iperf3: vulnerable to marvin attack if the authentication option is used
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	ybuenos
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	iPerf3 3.17	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A timing-based side-channel flaw was found in iperf3. If the iperf3 server is running with the --rsa-private-key-path option, the user authentication API can be attacked.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2280519
Bug Blocks:	2270276

Description ybuenos 2024-03-19 11:02:56 UTC

If the iperf3 server is running with --rsa-private-key-path option, the user authentication API can be attacked.

Comment 2 Sandipan Roy 2024-05-15 04:21:19 UTC

CVE is now Public:
https://downloads.es.net/pub/iperf/esnet-secadv-2024-0001.txt.asc
https://github.com/esnet/iperf/releases/tag/3.17
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26306

Comment 3 Sandipan Roy 2024-05-15 04:21:44 UTC

Created iperf3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280519]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2024-07-02 15:23:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:4241 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4241

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:03:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9185 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9185