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Description

Algorithms or code implementations of cryptographic processes will sometimes leak information by ending operations early or late based on, and correlated with, the input/key. If a threat actor is able to execute code on a processor performing a cryptographic operation, they may be able to infer the resulting key from that operation by measuring the timing it takes to perform the various functions.

CWE

CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy (Base)
CWE-1254: Incorrect Comparison Logic Granularity (Base)

CVE-2024-13176 (GCVE-0-2024-13176)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-20 13:29 – Updated: 2026-03-18 16:49

Title

Timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation

Summary

Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow recovering the private key exists in the ECDSA signature computation. Impact summary: A timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations could allow recovering the private key by an attacker. However, measuring the timing would require either local access to the signing application or a very fast network connection with low latency. There is a timing signal of around 300 nanoseconds when the top word of the inverted ECDSA nonce value is zero. This can happen with significant probability only for some of the supported elliptic curves. In particular the NIST P-521 curve is affected. To be able to measure this leak, the attacker process must either be located in the same physical computer or must have a very fast network connection with low latency. For that reason the severity of this vulnerability is Low. The FIPS modules in 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.

Severity

4.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-27 20:21 UTC

CWE

CWE-385 - Covert Timing Channel

Assigner

openssl CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 78/100 over 43 records in the last 180 days details

References

13 references

URL	Tags
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20250120.txt	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/77c608f…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/392dcb3…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/4b1cb94…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/2af62e7…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/07272b0…	patch
https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-relea…	patch
https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-relea…	patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/20/2
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025012…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025041…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025050…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
OpenSSL	OpenSSL	Affected: 3.4.0 , < 3.4.1 (semver) Affected: 3.3.0 , < 3.3.3 (semver) Affected: 3.2.0 , < 3.2.4 (semver) Affected: 3.1.0 , < 3.1.8 (semver) Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.16 (semver) Affected: 1.1.1 , < 1.1.1zb (custom) Affected: 1.0.2 , < 1.0.2zl (custom)

Date Public

2025-01-20 14:00

Credits

George Pantelakis (Red Hat) Alicja Kario (Red Hat) Tomáš Mráz

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