CVE-2018-12436

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-12436
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-15 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-06 16:55:00 UTC
Descriptionwolfcrypt/src/ecc.c in wolfSSL before 3.15.1.patch allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wolfssl Wolfssl All All All All
Application Wolfssl Wolfssl All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Change ECDSA signing to use blinding. · wolfSSL/wolfssl@9b9568d · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
wolfSSL and ROHNP - wolfSSL MISC www.wolfssl.com Vendor Advisory
www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-numbe... MISC www.nccgroup.trust Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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