CVE-2020-10932

Summary

CVECVE-2020-10932
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-15 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-03 15:32:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-327 | CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Arm Mbed Tls All All All All
Application Arm Mbed Tls All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: mbedtls-2.16.6-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
Side channel attack on ECDSA - Tech Updates - Mbed TLS (Previously PolarSSL) CONFIRM tls.mbed.org Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: mbedtls-2.16.6-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Security Advisories - Tech Updates - mbed TLS (Previously PolarSSL) MISC tls.mbed.org Vendor Advisory
Mbed TLS 2.16.6 and 2.7.15 released - Tech Updates - Mbed TLS (Previously PolarSSL) CONFIRM tls.mbed.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3249-1] mbedtls security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mbedtls-2.16.6-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mbedtls-2.16.6-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181446 Debian Security Update for mbedtls (DLA 3249-1)
  • 500397 Alpine Linux Security Update for mbedtls
  • 504155 Alpine Linux Security Update for mbedtls
  • 750330 OpenSUSE Security Update for mbedtls (openSUSE-SU-2021:0384-1)
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