CVE-2016-2849 (GCVE-0-2016-2849)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI
Summary
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.29 do not use a constant-time algorithm to perform a modular inverse on the signature nonce k, which might allow remote attackers to obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel attack.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2369 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=146185420505943&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://botan.randombit.net/security.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2016-03-17 00:00
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.