CVE-2021-29415

Summary

CVECVE-2021-29415
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-21 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-12 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionThe elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) hardware accelerator, part of the ARM® TrustZone® CryptoCell 310, contained in the NordicSemiconductor nRF52840 through 2021-03-29 has a non-constant time ECDSA implemenation. This allows an adversary to recover the private ECC key used during an ECDSA operation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Nordicsemi Nrf52840 - All All All
Operating System Nordicsemi Nrf52840 Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE - Fraunhofer SIT MISC www.sit.fraunhofer.de
Security and Trust in Open Source Security Tokens - Fraunhofer AISEC MISC www.aisec.fraunhofer.de
Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/640 - Security and Trust in Open Source Security Tokens MISC eprint.iacr.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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