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CVE-2025-22866 (GCVE-0-2025-22866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-06 16:54 – Updated: 2025-02-21 18:03
VLAI
Title
Timing sidechannel for P-256 on ppc64le in crypto/internal/nistec
Summary
Due to the usage of a variable time instruction in the assembly implementation of an internal function, a small number of bits of secret scalars are leaked on the ppc64le architecture. Due to the way this function is used, we do not believe this leakage is enough to allow recovery of the private key when P-256 is used in any well known protocols.
Severity
4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-10 20:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library crypto/internal/nistec Affected: 0 , < 1.22.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.23.0-0 , < 1.23.6 (semver)
Affected: 1.24.0-0 , < 1.24.0-rc.3 (semver)
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