Vulnerability Disclosure: DTLS clear application data messages in epoch 0

Affected Users:

Anyone using DTLS with wolfSSL versions prior to release 4.5.0.

Summary:

An issue was discovered in the DTLS handshake implementation in wolfSSL before 4.5.0. Clear DTLS application_data messages in epoch 0 do not produce an out-of-order error. Instead, these messages are returned to the application.

Recommendation:

Update to wolfSSL version 4.5.0.

Research:

The research for this vulnerability is not yet publicly available, a public disclosure containing more details is currently scheduled for November 15th, 2020. CVE-2020-24585 has been reserved for when the public disclosure is made available.

Additional Details:

More available upon public disclosure of research. The patch fixing this issue can be viewed at this link:

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/commit/3be7f3e

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