CVE-2023-45287 (GCVE-0-2023-45287)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-05 16:18 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:14
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Title
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel
Summary
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based TLS key exchanges used the math/big library, which is not constant time. RSA blinding was applied to prevent timing attacks, but analysis shows this may not have been fully effective. In particular it appears as if the removal of PKCS#1 padding may leak timing information, which in turn could be used to recover session key bits. In Go 1.20, the crypto/tls library switched to a fully constant time RSA implementation, which we do not believe exhibits any timing side channels.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Assigner
Go CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 64 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library crypto/tls Affected: 0 , < 1.20.0 (semver)
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