CVE-2018-12438

The Elliptic Curve Cryptography library (aka sunec or libsunec) allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden…

published June 15, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Elliptic Curve Cryptography library (aka sunec or libsunec) allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00464 · 38.9th percentile
Published
2018-06-15T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JUN 02:00Z
    The Elliptic Curve Cryptography library (aka sunec or libsunec) allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden…
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