CVE-2020-10932

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15

published April 15, 2020

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15. An attacker that can get precise enough side-channel measurements can recover the long-term ECDSA private key by (1) reconstructing the projective coordinate of the result of scalar multiplication by exploiting side channels in the conversion to affine coordinates; (2) using an attack described by Naccache, Smart, and Stern in 2003 to recover a few bits of the ephemeral scalar from those projective coordinates via several measurements; and (3) using a lattice attack to get from there to the long-term ECDSA private key used for the signatures. Typically an attacker would have sufficient access when attacking an SGX enclave and controlling the untrusted OS.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00250 · 15.4th percentile
Published
2020-04-15T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 APR 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15
    cvelistv5