CVE-2014-3570: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 21.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BN_sqr implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not properly calculate the square of a BIGNUM value, which might make it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors, related to crypto/bn/asm/mips.pl, crypto/bn/asm/x86_64-gcc.c, and crypto/bn/bn_asm.c.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8zc; version 1.0.0a only; version 1.0.0b only; version 1.0.0c only; version 1.0.0d only; version 1.0.0e only; …

Published 2015-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.