CVE-2021-29415 (GCVE-0-2021-29415)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-21 11:29 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The 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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
| https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/en/news-events/down… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/w… | x_refsource_MISC |
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