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CVE-2020-10932

MEDIUM
4.7
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15. An attacker that can get precise enough side-channel measurements can recover the long-term ECDSA private key by (1) reconstructing the projective coordinate of the result of scalar multiplication by exploiting side channels in the conversion to affine coordinates; (2) using an attack described by Naccache, Smart, and Stern in 2003 to recover a few bits of the ephemeral scalar from those projective coordinates via several measurements; and (3) using a lattice attack to get from there to the long-term ECDSA private key used for the signatures. Typically an attacker would have sufficient access when attacking an SGX enclave and controlling the untrusted OS.

How to fix

Remediation Available
mbedtlsDebian
Fixed in:2.16.9-0.1CVE-2020-10932
Fixed in:2.16.9-0.1CVE-2020-10932
Fixed in:2.16.9-0.1CVE-2020-10932
Fixed in:2.16.9-0.1CVE-2020-10932

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.25%probability of exploitation in 30 days
16thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 16% of all known CVEs.

References

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-203 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

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CVE-2017-5753Medium5.694%-Fix
CVE-2003-0190Medium5.077%-Fix
CVE-2017-5715Medium5.674%-Fix
CVE-2018-3639Medium5.561%-Fix
CVE-2023-28770High7.558%-Fix
CVE-2004-1602Medium5.031%--
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