CVE-2026-118769 PUBLISHED

Botan: Integer overflow when reporting block size in FFI can cause memory corruption

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 28.10.2026 Published: 29.10.2026 Updated: 29.10.2026

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. From 2.1.0 until 3.13.0, the Botan C API function botan_block_cipher_block_size converted a size_t block size to int without a bounds check. In an application that accepts external algorithm parameter strings and uses the FFI raw ECB mode, an attacker can select the variable-block-size Lion cipher so that the reported size is truncated, the caller allocates insufficient memory, and later block processing causes memory corruption. The C++ API and normally used C API modes such as CBC and CTR are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor randombit
Product botan
Versions
  • Version >= 2.1.0, < 3.13.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE
  • CWE-681: Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE