CVE-2018-12435 (GCVE-0-2018-12435)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-15 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:38
VLAI
Summary
Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2351 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2018-06-14 00:00
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